Bush's lead Secret Service bodyguard "clashes with Chilean Police"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Secret Service agent clashes with Chilean police



SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- 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.

Abandoning the other three, Bush walked over to the agents, reached through the dispute and pulled his agent from the scrum.

The president, looking irritated, walked away with the agent. The incident was shown on APEC television.

[Vickers]

1. "The incident was shown on APEC television."

Why, they must not be fair and balanced if they show that sort of thing!!!!

/sarcasm

[alphafemale]

2. Bullshit. Sounds like a staged event. * is going to have a cowboy moment

Yeah. Right.

This is such total bullshit.

Sad thing is. The media will wall to wall this.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

:mad: :grr: :mad:

[ohioan]

8. I don't think it's staged

Secret Service often run into problems with local security in foreign nations where they have a different idea of how security should be handled.

If Chilean security refused to allow Bush's agents into the room with him, the lead agent SHOULD get in someone's face about it.

[DU9598]

3. More evidence of the brutality morality of republicans

And we wonder why the NBA folk and the college football folk turn to violence? Could it be that our leaders accept violence?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Bush's bodyguard had a responsibility toward Bush, and the Police...

...had to protect the whole FRIGGING event...AND deal with the THOUSANDS of Bush protesters.

But in a world where it's all about Bush, that becomes a minor detail.

There are street photos of Bush that were released today. Very, VERY close cropped...him and the "dignitary" standing next to him, not even the slightest hint of a "crowd background" in the shots.

[ohioan]

9. The Secret Service agents are non-partisan - they are protecting the

President of the United States, not a particular individual. Clinton's agents would have done the same thing - and in fact have.

The problem in this instance seems to be not that there was a confrontation, but that that Bush's agent lost his cool and, as a result, drew the President into an embarrassing situation. Not good.

But this is a molehill, not a mountain.

[Chipper Chat]

4. can we write a caption for this pik?

how about: "look Pedro - do you want your fucking country to become Texas chili beans?"

[NWHarkness]

6. What do those Chileans think?

That they get to run their own country or something?

[DBoon]

7. Henry Kissenger already decided that long ago

Sorry, they haven't been in charge of their own country for quite a while