Posted on 11/21/2004 10:23:41 AM PST by kattracks
SANTIAGO, Chile — President Bush broke up a fight last night between his lead Secret Service agent and a Chilean security detail, pulling the agent through a wall of men trying to bar his bodyguard's access to a state dinner[snip]
Mr. Bush calmly turned right as the other three continued on and inserted himself into the fight. The president reached over two rows of Chilean security guards, grabbed his lead agent by the shoulder of his suit jacket and began to pull.
The tape of the incident, viewed by reporters last night, could not pick up any words the president might have been saying as he worked to get the agent through the line.
A few Chilean guards turned their heads and noticed that the arm draped over their shoulders was that of the president, and the line softened. Mr. Bush pulled his agent through, who was heard to say, "Get your hands off me" as he passed roughly through the doorway.[snip]
The Secret Service source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the president's security detail and that the Chileans had argued about security procedures all day and that he wasn't surprised to see last night's skirmish unfold.
The Chileans, he said, were determined to take charge of security, but the president of the United States is the only world leader who takes his bodyguards with him wherever he goes. Normally, foreign countries defer to that demand. The Chilean security detail resisted, the source said, and was determined to take a stand at the dinner.
Chilean security knew that the Secret Service always accompanies the president and knows how to identify them by the pins on their lapels, the source said, but blocked them anyway.
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After the President pulled the SS in with him to the dinner, the coverage shows our security having words with the Chilean security.
I'm going to be darn glad to hear our President is out of there.
Well said!
I wasn't the one that was childishly complaining.
Adding the new material to an existing thread forcesa a reader to read the entire thread to get to the latest. Is that your idea of how FR should be run?
OK, OOOOKKKK, OOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKK, we've understood. Uffff...
Note to thread police... not everyone sits here all day refreshing threads.
Sorry ... but I for one do NOT like shuffling thru a few hundred posts of one thread to see NEW info about a subject that has been posted about before. If there is new info I happened to like it in a NEW thread
You haven't been a member long enough to be part of the posting police. Watch and learn.
I'm glad I read it again, some new info and I will never tire reading about W taking the bull by the horns. Gotta love our President!!
Well said...
Perhaps we have a different understanding of the term 'new material'. Maybe we can have someone simply email you each day everything you need to know.
I bet you there's an agent on his way back to D.C. even now. When the president of the United States has to pull you out of a fight, you know you're in trouble.
Thanks.
Some of us are linking for the first time.
Chill!
That's a clever smartass reply. Have another cup of grumpy,
Is video of this posted anywhere?
About 18:00 minutes in, the President arrives. Very interesting video.
An attack of any kind on the President's security people is an attack on the President himself. Chile owes us an apology and some big changes in their security personnel and their training. I'm amazed that nobody in Chilean security is dead.
I'm not saying they shouldn't do it, but when you essentially tell people that you question their compentence to do a job, you have to expect peeing contests to erupt. This one clearly got out of hand.
Bush was great though, wasn't he?
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