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Bush comes to aid of Secret Service agent
AP ^ | 11/20/2004 | AP staff

Posted on 11/20/2004 4:13:02 PM PST by wjersey

Edited on 11/20/2004 7:38:20 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Bush stepped into the middle of a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who barred his bodyguards from entering an elegant dinner for 21 world leaders Saturday night.

Several Chilean and American agents got into a pushing and shoving match outside the cultural center where the dinner was held. Bush noticed the fracas after posing for pictures on a red carpet with the summit host, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and his wife and first lady Laura Bush.


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To: JudyinCanada

I agree. Their love story could rival that of Ronnie & Nancy. Both couples totally devoted to each other. So romantic. Ok...sappy post over. SMILE


1,161 posted on 11/21/2004 7:21:02 AM PST by TNdandelion
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To: hershey
I've read/heard several times that the USSS consider the job of protecting Bush especially challenging.

Obviously, the Prez respects them and the job they have, but he doesn't let their rules and regulations dictate every move he makes.

1,162 posted on 11/21/2004 7:26:05 AM PST by TNdandelion
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To: ohioWfan

"It doesn't take much imagination to understand that Laura has to be some kind of woman to completely satisfy THIS much of a man."

Therein is their confusion-they dont know the first thing about real men...


1,163 posted on 11/21/2004 7:28:04 AM PST by treeclimber ("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." GWB 2001)
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To: PhilDragoo
I faxed their ambassador at the Chilean Embassy in DC.

Great! :^D

Hey, if you get a reply will you let me know?? Thanks.


1,164 posted on 11/21/2004 7:32:02 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: ken5050
Wha he shoudl have done, when his access was blocked, was stop, stand still,and loudly call out.."Mr President, please do NOT enter the room sir.."

I disagree. He should have put his Glock up that bastard's nose and told him to stand down or fall down.

1,165 posted on 11/21/2004 7:38:02 AM PST by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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To: sc2_ct

Absolutely... what a MAN


1,166 posted on 11/21/2004 7:45:50 AM PST by Mikey_1962
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To: wjersey
"He told them they were with him and the issue was resolved."

I wonder if he "told them" in Spanish? There are many interesting ways to do that. There's even a special verb tense to do it in. You might call it the "command tense". My daughter used it when "reading the riot act" to a less than cooperate manager for Greyhound's Mexican affiliate when she was chaperoning a group of U Texas undergrads on a field trip into central Mexico.

1,167 posted on 11/21/2004 7:50:45 AM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: hershey
Video is on dailyrecycler.com here. Didn't see that posted. (I'm still sleepy.)
1,168 posted on 11/21/2004 7:55:05 AM PST by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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To: JanetteS

coyboys are america,coyboys are cool,americans (most) love the coyboy hero..the rest of the world can stuff it..==gary cooper high noon


1,169 posted on 11/21/2004 7:58:26 AM PST by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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To: bd476
hard to know for certain who is whom.

I agree, it is, and that probably isn't an all bad thing for those of us playing armchair quarterback.

1,170 posted on 11/21/2004 7:58:49 AM PST by not_apathetic_anymore
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To: Made in USA

love that picture, and the rest of the world TS


1,171 posted on 11/21/2004 8:00:37 AM PST by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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To: penelopesire

LOL!


1,172 posted on 11/21/2004 8:03:55 AM PST by MEG33 ( Congratulations President Bush!..Thank you God. Four More Years!)
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To: Gabz
Who's in more trouble tonight, the SS agent or the President?

Well the President may be in trouble, but only with the Secret Service. They would not want him exposing himself to that "scrum" the way he did. But tough, he's the boss. They don't much like him working crowds the way he does either. They were nervous when he worked the crowd on the carrier that he had landed on, in this case it had to beyond nervous into apoplexy.

1,173 posted on 11/21/2004 8:05:23 AM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: JonDavid
I just heard on Fox news that the USSS agent blocked by the Chilean security forces was actually in charge of the other agents. When the Chilean's stopped him, they stopped most if not all other USSS agents. Fox however downplayed it. So, again, President Bush’s quick reactions may have prevented an assassination attempt on him.

This doesn't make any sense at all. Do you think that USSS agents wern't already in the building? The USSS would not have allowed him to enter the building in the first place if the front side agents were not already in place.

This is silly how many are trying to spin this into a certain assassination attempt. If the USSS had thought the situation was that grave, they would have whisked him back out of the building. They wouldn't have thought "the president probably just prevented his own assassination - oh well, I'm sure everything is fine now - Let's all enjoy the party".

If the agents that were on the ground didn't think there was any imminent threat, then how are these certain assasination fantasies justified?
1,174 posted on 11/21/2004 8:16:31 AM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: Lady In Blue

GWB Is The Man ~ Bump!


1,175 posted on 11/21/2004 8:18:00 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: hershey
NO MAN LEFT BEHIND!
1,176 posted on 11/21/2004 8:20:16 AM PST by Thomas Newton (Conservative Poet)
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To: EricT.
I disagree. He should have put his Glock up that bastard's nose and told him to stand down or fall down.

The USSS is outnumbered and out gunned when the POTUS visits foreign nations. That's one of the problems when traveling abroad. The USSS can be used to stop attacks from outside groups that have penetrated the host nation's security, but they can't be expected to be able to protect him from the host nation itself.

I'm not saying the president shouldn't travel. I'm just saying that I'm sure the USSS and other government agencies determine which foreign visits are safe. I doubt we'll be seeing the president visit Saudi Arabia anytime soon.

Pulling out a weapon in that situation could have easily started a fire fight and the president could have easily been hit in the subsequent confusion. Think about it this way, how would the USSS react if the bodyguards of a visiting leader pulled a weapon on them?

From what we know, the USSS agents seem to have reacted in the most reasonable and practical matter. I will say though, that there is a point that the detained agents may have forced to take physical action - thankfully, it didn't get to that.
1,177 posted on 11/21/2004 8:26:50 AM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: Dog
"the Chilean security had to know who the Secret Service were....and it looks like an attempt to separate the President from his security. This was no accident or mistake.."

Hu Xintao was there too, remember... so I'd rate this pretty high as an attempt by Chili to pick off the Presidential football...with the added goal of isolating the President from SS for some sort of power play.

There will be fallout from what happened, so to speak.

1,178 posted on 11/21/2004 8:31:31 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: JeffAtlanta

I am not spinning. That's what the Fox News said. Your right, perhaps other people, Comrade Kerry comes to mind, would have allowed the USSS to “run" him to the airport after this, but not President Bush.


1,179 posted on 11/21/2004 8:38:07 AM PST by JonDavid
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To: texasflower

:) Ya can't help but love him. He's the man!


1,180 posted on 11/21/2004 8:40:10 AM PST by cubreporter
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