Thanks. Where was he?
Posted on 11/22/2004 1:30:55 PM PST by GretchenM
The [APEC] summit in ... Chile, was the site of a ... kerfuffle... over the weekend, as the Chileans picked fights with the U.S. Secret Service and lost. The first ... involved Nick Trotta ... in President Bush's security detail. As the president ... entered ..., "Chilean officers, who appeared to be waiting for the moment, stepped in front of Trotta, blocking him from entering," ...
U.S. officials said Chilean police had been chafing for a week about a demand by Secret Service agents that they control the president's space...
... amid a flurry of half nelsons, one Secret Service agent wound up jammed against a wall. "You're not stopping me! ...I'm with the president!" an unidentified agent can be heard yelling on videotape...
... The president, who is rarely alone ...turned and walked back to the front door unaccompanied, facing the backs of a sea of dark suits. Bush, with his right hand, reached over the suits and pointed insistently at Trotta. At first the officials ... did not realize it was the president intervening. Bush then braced himself against someone and lunged to retrieve the agent, who was still arguing with the Chileans. The shocked Chilean officials then released Trotta.
Trotta walked in behind Bush, who looked enormously pleased with himself. He was wearing the expression that some critics call a smirk, and his eyebrows shot up as if to wink at bystanders.
The Post quotes Marcelo Romero, a Chilean reporter: "All of us journalists agree that President Bush looked like a cowboy. It was total breach of protocol. I've seen a lot of John Wayne movies, and President Bush was definitely acting like a cowboy." Apparently some journalists think that's a bad thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I love it! :-)
I never have SEEN it though...other than in the pictures Diogenesis posted...is there a video of it anywhere online that uses window media? I don't have Real.
Secret service doesn't handle the football...there'll be some military officer in charge of that.
Bullseye, Chad.
You got that right, but no one seems to be talking about that!
Thanks. Where was he?
Maybe during his second term, the President should avoid going to third world crapholes.
Woooo - Hoooo !!
you wanna be a cowboy or a girly man?
"It was total breach of protocol. "
It seemed VERY odd to me that the President's body guard was blocked. I would say THEY are breaching protocol.
In fact, I've been uncomfortable about the trip with the demonstrations prior to his arrival.
My heros have always been cowboys.....
Romero you ignorant fool, "COWBOY" is not a bad thing to many Americans!!
Cowboys are basically pilgrim stock grown bolder as circumstances and wide ranges demanded.
It speaks well of adaptability and survival.
He doesn't have to act like a cowboy. He comes from Texas.
BWAHAHahaha! Journalists in Chile know how to whine in at least two languages.
http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/11/taking-charge.html
is the only link I have of the altercation - extrication.
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