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Posted on 11/22/2004 9:40:22 PM PST by kattracks
White House officials were still shaking their heads in disbelief yesterday that President Bush personally had to rescue a U.S. Secret Service agent from angry Chilean security officials Saturday night.
"This is a pretty big deal," said a senior White House official, who called the incident a "melee."
"I mean, the guy who was supposed to be guarded had to rescue the guy who was supposed to be guarding him."
The official expressed astonishment that Chilean security officials had stopped the No. 2 agent on Mr. Bush's security detail from accompanying the president into a meeting with another world leader, an unprecedented public breach of security arrangements agreed upon in advance.[snip]
In contrast to Chile, which rejected Secret Service protocols, Colombia ceded control of 15,000 of its troops to the United States when Mr. Bush visited there yesterday. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe also agreed to allow heavily armed U.S. Navy forces to patrol the waters around Cartegena in rubber boats.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
/john
I LOVE OUR TEXAS COWBOY!
Me, too!
An event pl;anned by the leftists media and their friends perhaps.....
There is a mess up here. It should have been the other 'way around. The PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN COMPROMISED and put in this situation in the first place. JMO. The advance team should have their testicles left to dry in the Sun like Amarone would be in the southern hemisphere.
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Dubya... F**K YEAH!!!
Good grief! Didn't the Chileans and the SS have, er, discussions for hours, maybe days, before this event? The only thing I would add to the discussion is after watching the tape of ~20 other notables entering the building, none of which had security details. IF "W's" SS had problems with the security arrangements, "W" shouldn' have gone. However, if the Chileans agreed to allow at least some security to accompany "W", and that agreement was breached, THAT would be a problem. Big problem. We may never know the answer to that.
FGS
La Cuarta, a Santiago newspaper, described Mr. Bush's actions as a "total breach of protocol" and referred to him as "John Wayne ... definitely acting like a cowboy."
To quote MEG33 in #22: I LOVE OUR TEXAS COWBOY! :-)
ping
too bad Gore never swung on Bush back in that debate dust up.
W woulda kicked his butt straight back to Belle Meade.
Let's reward these So. American SOBs with a new hemispheric Free Trade Agreement and call it FTAA, shall we?/s Sheesh...
My heroes have always been .... Vaqueros? ;o) Our Head Honcho... in Head Poncho.
Well, when you're a guilty "engine", you sure don't like no "cowboys" treading nearby...no offense to Cowboys nor American Indians.
Yes, and we need a post devoted only to those who post about too many duplicate posts. Someone needs to set up a special post.
The official expressed astonishment that Chilean security officials had stopped the No. 2 agent on Mr. Bush's security detail from accompanying the president into a meeting with another world leader, an unprecedented public breach of security arrangements agreed upon in advance.
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On the part of the Chilean's, there was little cooperation, and the SS guys could talk until they were blue in the face and nothing ever gets done. That's how it is down there.
If you saw the news conference from Colombia today, you will be really glad some U.S. security got to be in charge - there were all kinds of boats out there on the water, right behind him.
As they would say in Chile: "Huaso."
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