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Again: Chileans Offend Bush
newsmax ^ | 11-21-04

Posted on 11/21/2004 8:46:42 AM PST by LouAvul

Hours after President Bush dove into a fracas to rescue his lead Secret Service agent from a confrontation with Chilean security officials, word surfaced of another security dispute. This time, an elaborate state dinner Sunday night was the casualty.

The dinner planned for Bush and 200 others by Chilean President Ricardo Lagos was reportedly scrapped after Chile was unwilling to accept security measures sought by the U.S. Secret Service, including a demand that all guests pass through metal detectors.

Leading Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reported that the disagreement led Bush and Lagos to instead hold a small "social dinner" with a handful of aides from each side.

On Saturday night, Chilean security barred Bush's bodyguards from accompanying the president into a dinner for Asia-Pacific leaders. As a pushing and shoving match ensued, Bush strode over to the melee, reached into the group and pulled mustachioed agent Nick Trotta out by the lapel and into the dinner.

Trotta has been taking good-natured ribbing for having to be rescued by the man he's charged with protecting.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apec; bush43; chile; usss
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Mr. President, come home. If these third-worlders are willing to put you at risk, forget about 'em.
1 posted on 11/21/2004 8:46:42 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: LouAvul

I couldn't agree more, Lou.


2 posted on 11/21/2004 8:48:27 AM PST by EggsAckley
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To: LouAvul

Exactly.


3 posted on 11/21/2004 8:49:34 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: LouAvul

I certainly hope the USSS has taken this seriously. This should have never happened, It really gets me tight to see this cheap crap. It's like they are testing the water's as how far things an be pushed. Don't like it, Just Don't like it!


4 posted on 11/21/2004 8:51:15 AM PST by 26lemoncharlie (Defending America)
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To: LouAvul
"Bush strode over to the melee, reached into the group and pulled mustachioed agent Nick Trotta out by the lapel and into the dinner. "

could you IMAGINE any leftist like clinton, kerry, kennedy, etc having the guts and sense to simply go over there and ACT DECISEVELY?

They would have run off screaming and cowering begging kofi for international aid.
5 posted on 11/21/2004 8:51:44 AM PST by steplock (http://www.outoftimeradio.org)
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To: Diogenesis

Trotta has been taking good-natured ribbing for having to be rescued by the man he's charged with protecting.

Wow...talk about a story to tell everyone back home...


6 posted on 11/21/2004 8:53:10 AM PST by the lone highschooler (this is THE tagline)
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To: steplock
He acted in a preemptive and unilateral manner.
7 posted on 11/21/2004 8:54:05 AM PST by Max Combined (Clinton is "the notorious Oval Office onanist ")
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To: Max Combined
He acted in a preemptive and unilateral manner.

...Now where have I heard that before?

Shouldn't he have gone to the UN for global approval before rescuing his SS agent?

8 posted on 11/21/2004 8:58:02 AM PST by weenie ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: LouAvul

There's something that should be stated clearly on one of these threads.

When the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) is completely implemented, these yahoo nations in Central and South America will be given the right to help determine our nation's policies.

The FTAA is the second step toward something the equivelant of the E.U., only it will be the A.U.

People better start waking up and speaking out in objection to this nonsense. Our nation's interests are best determined by the citizens of the United States, not some trade or governance tribunal filled 90% by people who do not answer to us in any manor.


9 posted on 11/21/2004 9:01:28 AM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: LouAvul
On Saturday night, Chilean security barred Bush's bodyguards from accompanying the president into a dinner for Asia-Pacific leaders. As a pushing and shoving match ensued, Bush strode over to the melee, reached into the group and pulled mustachioed agent Nick Trotta out by the lapel and into the dinner.
Can you imagine a Clinton or a Kerry even caring enough to know that one of their security detal were in trouble, let alone "rescue" him personally?

I love our president. And if all the world hates you, you must be doing something right.
10 posted on 11/21/2004 9:02:22 AM PST by Asclepius (protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
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To: LouAvul

11 posted on 11/21/2004 9:02:37 AM PST by FreedomFarmer (Time to hunt socialist ork!)
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To: LouAvul

Ok - I'll put my tin foil hat on. But attempts to interfere with security arrangements for the President worry me and make me deeply suspicious.


12 posted on 11/21/2004 9:03:40 AM PST by Enterprise (The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
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To: LouAvul

1) Chile has been drifting left.
2) They had an estimated 40,000 protestors in the street over the last few days.
3) These street protestors focused on Bush in their shouts and signs.
4) How could anyone in the Chilean government not be worried over security at a dinner or social mixer?
5) If the Chileans wouldn't allow a metal detector to be put in place, they must not be concerned over security.

Screw 'em.

Hoppy


13 posted on 11/21/2004 9:10:26 AM PST by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: 26lemoncharlie
Statement: "...It's like they are testing the water's as how far things an be pushed...."

Response: The Third Worlders smell a kill. I had one little hispanic lawyerette tell me "We are taking over."

Comment: Love, tolerance, the big tent, room at the table, discussion, debate, expression of different points of view, equality, equal opportunity are all symptoms of our decrepitude, such ideas are not manifestations of life and growth.

14 posted on 11/21/2004 9:13:41 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: Asclepius
Kerry would have reprimanded the security guard for embarrassing him by taking the attention off of him....Bush is the man!
15 posted on 11/21/2004 9:15:24 AM PST by ladiesview61
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To: LouAvul

You are walking on the fighting side of a Texan, when you pick on his body guard-fools!!!! A Texans bodyguard is for your protection. What part of "Don't mess with Texas", do you idiots not understand??????


16 posted on 11/21/2004 9:17:00 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Hey, you still in the womb! If you trust Specter with your life-raise your inocent little hands.)
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To: Diogenesis

It does have an odd smell, don't it?


17 posted on 11/21/2004 9:19:29 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Enterprise

You're not the only one with the tin foil. I had the same suspicion


18 posted on 11/21/2004 9:20:20 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: 26lemoncharlie

I believe these piss-ant countries would never push this far without the open support of ex-presidents and elected officials who attack George W. Bush viciously in public, before world organizations. Count Jimmah "Peace With Terrorists" Carter, Bubba Clinton, and Teddy "Can She Float" Kennedy among these back-stabbing, traitorous men.


19 posted on 11/21/2004 9:24:40 AM PST by Libertina (We praise You Lord, You have granted America a Christian leader!)
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To: the lone highschooler

I have watched Trotta and other Secret Service agents guard and watch over President Bush, especially during the campaign. They not only do a terrific job, the love the guy. Just look at their faces, how focused they are when he is out shaking hands and such. The eyes and facial features tell the whole story.


20 posted on 11/21/2004 9:24:50 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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