There has been considerable back-and-forth over the years regarding the casualty count from Operation Just Cause, with the Army publicly claiming about 500 but privately admitting to twice that number. The 4,000 number comes from a Panamanian organization called The Association of the Dead of 20 Dec.

Noriega had a years-long relationship with Colombian drug traffickers and was involved in drug-running himself, yet was simultaneously a U.S. intelligence asset who had very close relationships with top government officials. They ignored his drug-running because he provided logistical and monetary support to the U.S. war against the Nicaraguan Sandinistas

The 1989-90 invasion of Panama,called “Operation Just Cause”, occurred under H.W.’s watch. The invasion deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega – the real Noriega

Bush, while never explicitly calling himself “born-again”, is a devout Christian and has often conflated what God supposedly wants with his own political agenda, and has been quoted as saying, “I believe that God wants me to be president”

H.W., of course, presided over the 1990-1 Gulf War, supposedly started over Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. However, one week before Iraq’s invasion, the U.S. told Iraq that it had “no position” on the border dispute that led to the invasion. This led many to speculate that the real cause of the war was to gain control of Iraq’s oil supply

Diamond is apparently not a fan of the 1973 movie Walking Tall, a semi-biopic about a Tennessee wrester-turned-lawman. The movie’s protagonist uses a four-foot hickory club, which he “uses to great effect in destroying clandestine gambling dens and illegal distilleries, and even against criminals”. He is, as the lyric insinuates, white

Show goes a bit higher class than the meme hip-hop drink, the forty-once bottle of malt liquor, preferring expensive French champagne

Biz Markie was so affiliated with Pro Keds sneakers that, twenty years after this song was released, he would collaborate with the company to produce his own shoe

The original war was the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and the Iraq invasion followed shortly thereafter. Unclear whether the “other other war” is Somalia, Haiti, Iran, or something else. So many choices!