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

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

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To: LouAvul
Well, the Cubans murdered Chlean President Allende and tried to make it look like we did it. I guess they could do the same to Lagos and try to make it look like we did it, as well.

There is only one thing to do, "UNLEASH PINOCHET!!"

41 posted on 11/21/2004 10:42:11 AM PST by Tacis (Kerry - You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Lazy, Lying, Elitist Scumbag!)
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To: LouAvul
The arrangements, especially security, which have surrounded Presidential visits abroad have long rankled local host countries. There are several reasons for this. First the high handed attitude of the security service who view themselves as the creme de la creme of security service operations and who have come to demonstrate and tell the local rubes how it should be done. Secondly, the advance party for these visits is on a size, scale and level of detail not seen since D-Day. Huge 747's loaded with equipment, armored cars and telecommunication gadgets arrive days before the visit is scheduled to start and the staff coming with this arrival of extravagant back up demand and expect instant cooperation from local authorities to their every request. Finally, the secret service insists on packing heat to every venue even though in many cases the laws of the country being visited do not allow it.
The Secret Service has, in many respects, grown to develop an attitude and culture somewhat akin to the State Dept and the CIA. After all, who would dare deny them any resource that they request if they frame it in terms of being essential to protect the life of the President?
This "arrogance" can lead to active antagonism with local security forces if not diplomatically handled.
I guess in Chile, it wasn't.
42 posted on 11/21/2004 10:43:00 AM PST by finnigan2
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To: FreeReign

As previously stated, the FTAA is merely a stepping stone to an American Union. You don't have to buy into that. I don't really care.

The FTAA will itself give other nations through it's governing body, the ability to affect everything from tax policies to employment practices to health and safety issues.

Yes our Congress does have to sign off on this. Unfortunately, it has shown it's proclivity to parcel away self-governance on a number of occassions.


43 posted on 11/21/2004 10:43:33 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: Major_Risktaker

Thank you for the post.


44 posted on 11/21/2004 10:48:39 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: hosepipe

'Cudos to the shrub...'

How very DU of you, BTW it's Kudos dolt.


45 posted on 11/21/2004 10:58:54 AM PST by xone
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To: Asclepius

Adds a whole new meaning to "Don't Mess With Texas".


46 posted on 11/21/2004 11:08:44 AM PST by BARLF
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To: Enterprise
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.

Then I would have to wear that tin foil too. Some thing's not right in Chile and I'll be glad when W's back on American soil

47 posted on 11/21/2004 11:12:30 AM PST by clamper1797 (VA-93 --- CVA-41 Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72-73)
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To: LouAvul
Chilean leftists are unacquainted with testosterone, and far less with "Tex-tosterone".
48 posted on 11/21/2004 11:14:52 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: clamper1797
Some thing's not right in Chile and I'll be glad when W's back on American soil

I agree. They seem to be going out of their way to interfere with the President's security, and expose him to possible harm.

49 posted on 11/21/2004 11:16:07 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: xone
[ How very DU of you, BTW it's Kudos dolt. ]

your Barney Fifeness,, I like Cudos..
Never been to "DU", ...... YOU?....

Well thats your one bullet.. MISSED.. NYAH...

50 posted on 11/21/2004 11:18:08 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Thumper1960

However, one can have all the guns in the world, yet if one lacks the will to use them?????


51 posted on 11/21/2004 11:25:21 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: Hop A Long Cassidy
If the Chileans wouldn't allow a metal detector to be put in place, they must not be concerned over security.

Or maybe they are concerned and there is a reason they don'e like the security measures.

52 posted on 11/21/2004 11:27:24 AM PST by ThanhPhero (Ong la nguoi di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: Enterprise
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.

Maybe it' s a case of mass paranoia, but I like your mentality.

53 posted on 11/21/2004 11:31:35 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: hosepipe

DB.


54 posted on 11/21/2004 11:33:57 AM PST by xone
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To: LouAvul
Mr. President, come home. If these third-worlders are willing to put you at risk, forget about 'em.

Not only that, but let's cancel foreign aid, eliminate debt reduction measures and call in outstanding loans. If our leaders aren't good enough for them, then niether should be our money.

55 posted on 11/21/2004 11:34:33 AM PST by delacoert (imperat animus corpori, et paretur statim: imperat animus sibi, et resistitur. -AUGUSTINI)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Have no illusions of any 'lack of will'.

To use any and all means necessary to maintain that which was bought with blood and sacrifice is to honor those who came before.

56 posted on 11/21/2004 12:19:32 PM PST by Thumper1960 ("It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."-V.I.Lenin)
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To: Come And Take It

PING!


57 posted on 11/21/2004 3:35:49 PM PST by Repub Bub
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To: LouAvul
"Mr. President, come home. If these third-worlders are willing to put you at risk, forget about 'em."

Hear, hear. I love My President. To H with them.

58 posted on 11/21/2004 3:39:07 PM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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