Diogenesis wrote:
This may be the moment that started this
I don't think so. A few seconds before this, the other agent (the one W would later pull from the crowd) tried to follow W through the door, just 3 feet behind W. A Chilean agent stepped out from behind the door frame to block him. Clearly, the Chilean agents were under strong orders to let no one except the two Leaders (Chile and Foreign) and their spouses pass through that door. They had four agents just inside the doorway, two on each side, prepared to block all comers.
Jemian wrote:
President Bush did foil his own assasination.
I doubt that too. If you are in a room full of armed men who are practiced in violence and murder, who intend to kill you, who know that they will have to act fast and without questions, who anticipated with considerable planning you being there at that time and place with them, and who are absolutely determined to see you dead, the armed men don't turn their back on you to keep out the Secret Service. You die, right then.
I agree with both of your points.
I just don't see this as an assasination attempt. Especially since the event continued without incident.
As someone else said, The Secret Service wouldn't have let the President stay if they thought the situation was anything other than a misunderstanding.