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I admire his courage, but the President needs to stay out of such things, its potentially dangerous. We are in the middle of a war with ruthless assassins, who would stop at nothing to get at him. Not that that would change anything. But our enemy is stupid too. Just look at the grief Osama Bin Laden has brought down on them. Not to mention that moron Hussein, who thought he could just thumb his nose at us.

I admire his courage, but the President needs to stay out of such things, its potentially dangerous.

I don't know what else he could have done. Studying the video carefully, and from newspaper accounts, this was a deliberate act by the Chileans of separating our W from his USSS agents (there was more than one out front barred from entering).

WaPo and WashTimes said the USSS and Chilean police & security were arguing back and forth all day re: POTUS protection, the USSS taking charge of POTUS security even on foreign soil - and they were half expecting a stunt of some kind.

The Chileans wanted the USSS to enter a side door, with only the heads of state and their spouses entering the front door. This was unacceptable to USSS as it would leave W's back unprotected.

It is unclear to me whether we had agents in place already INSIDE the bldg as POTUS entered. I sure hope so. There are definitely men standing right inside the door watching as our W went into the fray to pull out Trotta - they continued to stand there and did nothing to assist. Were they our USSS or Chilean security or just onlookers? I can't tell.

I'm wondering whether this ongoing argument between security staffs was related to our W and he was aware of the tension. He was certainly aware of his perimeters judging by his actions.Notice towards the end of the video, after exchanging pleasantries with Chilean President and starting to move, that W looks back over his shoulder to make sure Trotta is with him.

Looking at the whole tape and having read all (I think) the newspaper accounts, I think W did the right thing - to ensure his and Laura's protection.