Imagine a world where President Bush invades a country, restores democracy, starts bringing troops home in less than a month, and sees the deposed dictator convicted in U.S. criminal courts.
Dubya's fantasy? No, his father's 1989 invasion of Panama.
General Manuel Noriega has been in jail ever since. Now he's scheduled
to be released in September, with time off for good behavior,having paid his debt to society. The Justice Department wants him extradited to France on money laundering charges, but since U.S. courts ruled he's a
prisoner of war, Noriega's lawyers say the Geneva Conventions require the U.S. to send him home.