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Bush comes to aid of Secret Service agent
AP ^ | 11/20/2004 | AP staff

Posted on 11/20/2004 4:13:02 PM PST by wjersey

Edited on 11/20/2004 7:38:20 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Bush stepped into the middle of a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who barred his bodyguards from entering an elegant dinner for 21 world leaders Saturday night.

Several Chilean and American agents got into a pushing and shoving match outside the cultural center where the dinner was held. Bush noticed the fracas after posing for pictures on a red carpet with the summit host, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and his wife and first lady Laura Bush.


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To: dandi

He would have probably punched the guy if he hadn't let his Secret Service guy in!! I love this cowboy!!!


561 posted on 11/20/2004 7:37:56 PM PST by luvie (WE DID NOT WAVER; WE DID NOT TIRE; WE DID NOT FALTER; AND WE DID NOT FAIL!! GWB ROCKS!!!!!!!!)
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To: ohioWfan

Thanks so much for the ping. It's been kinda dull here today.


562 posted on 11/20/2004 7:38:44 PM PST by silent_jonny
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To: bushisdamanin04

Kerry would have gone full throttle in the opposite direction, returned when the fracas was finished, then put himself in for a Bronze Star and Purple Heart



Compare this to our man!!!


"For a guy who's been known derisively to the Bush crowd as the Breck girl," observes Shearer, vice presidential candidate John Edwards seems "way too interested in his hair." He tries to straighten it with his fingers. A makeup technician approaches with a comb, but the senator likes it just so and does the combing himself. He signals he's ready for hair spray by closing his eyes expectantly, like a child. Then Edwards and the technician straighten a little more with their fingers. Please don't tell me that thing in his hand is a compact. Oh, dear. It is.


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563 posted on 11/20/2004 7:39:04 PM PST by danamco
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To: politicalmerc
"And I dare any Chiliean security scrum to put his hands on a Marine in uniform protecting the President like that."

The word "scrum" is an English idiom for "scrimmage," or the rough-and-tumble of Rugby. Bush played Rugby in college. Scrum is the pile of guys...

564 posted on 11/20/2004 7:39:08 PM PST by redhead ("Gee, Ricky. I'm sorry your mom blew up...")
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To: redhead
Scrum is the pile of guys...

As if John Edwards wasn't already jealous!

565 posted on 11/20/2004 7:40:31 PM PST by silent_jonny
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To: Texasforever

Well I agree with you, but a lot of countries don't recognize this in their laws. Here in New Zealand up until 1998 foreign heads of states' bodyguards aren't allowed to carry arms when the HOS is making a visit to NZ. According to NZ law they were regarded as status of guests in accompany with HOS in NZ.


566 posted on 11/20/2004 7:40:52 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Disclaimer: this poster is a naturalized NZer born in Hong Kong, not a expat Kiwi in HK)
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To: Wneighbor
This incident has nothing to do with the Prez wading into a crowd to protect his Secret Service agent from a slight. Maybe I've seen one too many Godfather movies, but the whole shoving match could have been a prelude to an assassination attempt. Or a test to see if the Secret Service agents could be sidelined.

Bush had to protect his wife as well as himself.

This whole incident is scary.

567 posted on 11/20/2004 7:40:57 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie.)
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To: JonDavid

Everytime he leaves here to visit another country I pray.

He left from Ft Hood yesterday, we live nearby.

When I heard he was about to take off for Chile, I thought oh why is he going there, I wish he wouldn't!!

This incident was probably more dangerous than we know.


568 posted on 11/20/2004 7:41:18 PM PST by WestCoastGal (Jr "I don't think the take will be any more but the give will be a lot less. That's how I will race")
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To: deadhead

Meeeeeeeeeee too..


Heads up Congress critters.. THIS is what we EXPECT from you too.


569 posted on 11/20/2004 7:42:50 PM PST by JesseJane (Air France flights 1192, 491, 288, 751, 216, now boarding...)
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To: SevenofNine

Was Dubya ticked off at the Chileans, the situation, or his security for getting into a scuffle?


570 posted on 11/20/2004 7:43:37 PM PST by flying Elvis
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To: Diogenesis

Some of the pictures of W's back make it clear he is wearing a bullet proof vest himself.


571 posted on 11/20/2004 7:44:46 PM PST by Another Thought
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To: Ciexyz
Your darn right.

THIS to me was the most disturbing photo I have seen in a long time. For the obvious reasons. Whewh!


572 posted on 11/20/2004 7:44:52 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I'll take 1 good "LET'S ROLL!" over 1,000 meaningless & vulgar "ALLAH AHKBAR"'s, any day!)
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To: Trainfish

This IMHO is not an accident or misunderstanding. I don't think this was a probe. Perhaps President Bush prevented his own assassination. President Bush needs are prayers


573 posted on 11/20/2004 7:44:54 PM PST by JonDavid
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To: danamco

The first GOP ad of '08!


574 posted on 11/20/2004 7:45:33 PM PST by bushisdamanin04
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To: Pharmboy

You are DEFINITELY NOT overreacting on this.

How can another government think that it can muscle in on the U.S. Secret Service and thus threaten the president's safety by creating a bad precedent?

For the sake of the braindead, it must be repeated: "As Bush stepped inside, Chilean agents closed ranks at the door, blocking the president's agents from following."


575 posted on 11/20/2004 7:45:36 PM PST by Sirc_Valence (As socialists formed trade unions against employers the ACLU formed against the U.S.)
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To: sc2_ct

I like a "hands on" president.


576 posted on 11/20/2004 7:45:38 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (Justice of the Piece: Hope IS on the way...)
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To: Guenevere
<> Choice #1 Get separated from the the President and Fail in his Mission. Choice #2 Create a Ruckus Choice #3 Start Shooting the people that separate him from the President. Do you know of any other choices this agent may have had?
577 posted on 11/20/2004 7:45:48 PM PST by TexasTransplant (When you are over the hill, you pick up speed)
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To: ohioWfan; OXENinFLA

Thanks for the pings


578 posted on 11/20/2004 7:46:34 PM PST by firewalk
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To: wjersey

Contrast that to the Shrill telling her secret service agents to keep the f!@% a few feet behind her.


579 posted on 11/20/2004 7:46:45 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: mdittmar

Actually a scrum is much better organised. The correct rugby term for what was happening would be a maul or ruck. That's with an R.


580 posted on 11/20/2004 7:47:32 PM PST by Timocrat (I Emanate on your Auras and Penumbras Mr Blackmun)
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