Entering Panama Canal

Sat (Jan 17)was a day at sea. We had an interesting guest lecture by Scott Ritter, the UN arms inspector in Iraq. Very interesting. He gave a lot of detail about what was known, and when it was known…and why it was known. He said that at one point James Wolsey, head of CIA, told him that it did not matter what they found or did not find, the US position was going to remain that there were 12 to 20 missiles hidden…in other words, the US wanted an excuse regardless of truth.

I’m posting this Sunday morning as we are entering the initial locks of the Panama canal. I’ll post more on this later.

I met a retired navy captain whose last trip through the Panama canal was when he was in command of a ship larger than our cruise boat. I promised that I’d buy him a beer for this trip through since that was not possible for his previous trip.