At the risk of being "flamed"...I agree and wish that the president had waited for all the facts before offering his opinion. All Bush had to say was "we're looking into it". I cringed when I heard him say he'd be "madder than heck".
I wondered then and wonder still: "What was the President thinking?" I still don't understand it.
The President said IFhe was kept off the flight because of his ethnicity ----
From everything I have heard, this SS Agent fit the profile of a suspicious person because of his behaviour. I would expect the pilot to have made the same decisions no matter what genetic background the person acting suspiciously represented. And bottom line - The agent is a trained profiler. He should have been as cool as ice during this snafu of flights and paperwork. He was presenting himself as one whose job is the personal protection of the President!!!
He was thinking of his conversations with this agent. This Agent had been guarding the President for nearly two years. Remember GW was guarded while he ran for President as well. GW knew this agent well and this is why he said what he said.
Quote me where he has been wrong on substance on anything that mattered.
American Airlines and this Pilott are in heap big trouble.