Posted on 11/28/2004 6:33:36 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of a unique intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives," features a column describing what could have turned into a deadly scenario in Chile for President Bush.
On his website, To the Point, Wheeler tells a little-known story about a conflict between Bush's security detail and Chile's security over the latter's refusal to have a metal-detector at a state dinner for the president. There is speculation, Wheeler points out, that Bush-loathing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a chum of Fidel Castro, is somehow connected to the incident.
Wheeler explains that Chilean officials attempted to block Secret Service agent Nick Trotta from protecting the president.
Writes Wheeler: "The attempt was a clear double-cross, because all security arrangements are made and agreed upon for the POTUS (President of the United States) between the Secret Service and host country security well in advance and etched in stone. The Chilean police knew and agreed that Trotta would be with the president, yet they blocked him in a complete surprise.
"Far worse than this was Chilean President Lagos' refusal to have guests at a State Dinner go through a metal detector. No one attends a function with the POTUS, either here in the U.S. or anywhere in the world, without going through a metal detector, and this was agreed to way beforehand in Santiago. At the last moment, Lagos refuses – then cancels the dinner when the Secret Service won’t budge."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
http://www.tothepointnews.com/welcome.php?partner=WND
must read after I wake up
WorldNetDaily often has conspiracy theories mentioned. However, this is far more plausible than all of the conspiracy stuff spewed out by the left put together.
With all of the hullabaloo over the President's trip to South America, I can't remember reading ANYTHING about the meetings. Was anything accomplished?
The MSM have been scratching their heads wondering how this "Cowboy" is gaining on approval ratings.
As much as our opponents want to give up the sovereignty of our nation's defense, so would they have given up on our own security in this situation.
I disagree with this statement. Every single liberal I know enjoys being envied and actually desires to be envied by all. They are nothing if not show offs who want to put other people in their place( which is beneath the liberal)
IMO- they enjoy creating a state in which they are envied and they know it, yet can somehow blame other people for the envy, and make it appear as thou they don't like it or don't desire it- it isn't cool you know, to be envied- but it what liberals and socialists most enjoy in life.
The Issue of what happened in Chile, is very puzzling indeed. Some in the media want to infer that the United States is not "sensitive" enough to other countries feelings...what is going on here?
For a complete different view in the media read this article
From Japan Times Online. A REVEALING MELEE IN CHILE
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?ed20041127a1.htm
Thanks! I could watch this sequence over and over. My President is a man of action, valor and loyalty.
The 1,200-page document covers the period from the coup of Sept. 11, 1973, that installed Gen. Augusto Pinochet in power through 1989, when military rule was about to give way to a democratic civilian government. It concludes that during the dictatorship, especially in the first phase, ``torture was a policy of the state, meant to repress and terrorize the population.''
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10288395.htm?1c
Powerline, Rocketman I think, wrote on this last week. He advanced the assasination theory. It's a good story, but if I were to plan this, I'd have attacked the President as he made his way back into the crowd to get Trotta. Looking at the sequence pix he was very very vuknerable at that time.
I agree with your "envy" analysis, this is otherwise known as liberal "elitism." On the other hand, when I first saw reports of the Chilean security incident, I had to catch my breath because I thought "something here doesn't smell right"; and, having a layman's knowledge of South American politics, what with rampant corruption and the Castro wannabe's south of the border, it makes sense that one/several of them would try something like an assassination.
Foreign governments understand and respect that. The problem lies not so much in what American security personnel do as in how they do it.
The Chilean guards were obviously feeling offended long before they harassed Mr. Bush's agent. Instead of congratulating itself on their comeuppance, the White House should perhaps be asking who and what had offended them.
That's called winning friends and influencing people.
Guess what Hashimoto, the Secret Service's job is to protect the president, not to make nice.
The macho Chileans got their asses handed to them. The Japanese of all people shoulsd know that feeling.
A well written but extremely stupid view of the incident from the Japan Times. The author (deliberately, imo) overlooks the fact that the Chilean security contigent had agreed to the security arrangements well beforehand, and reneged at the last moment. If the Chileans were, indeed, "offended" by the security arrangements for POTUS, well...they can just scratch future state visits. What right thinking country would trust foreigners with the safety of their head of state? That is negligence, if you ask me, and as wrong-headed as the article itself.
The Japanese article on your link could have been, and probably was, written by the typical left wing American hack. Aspersians rampant. Not who what when and where, but also the possibilities, how, and why. Bad journalism
through and through.
I was a little suspicious of the "incident" myself. I don't trust security from other countries. They seem to change loyalities with the shifting of the wind.
Cuba's First Vice President and Defense Minister Raul Castro (R) poses alongside Chinese President Hu Jintao, upon his arrival at Havana's Jose Marti International airport in Havana, November 22, 2004. Jintao is in Cuba for a state visit after having attended the APEC summit in Chile. REUTERS/Claudia Daut
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