Bush makes an ass out of himself in Chile. [View All]

I am so embarrassed for all good Americans.

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Official dinner for Bush in Chile cancelled over reported security concerns

Alan Clendenning
Canadian Press

Sunday, November 21, 2004



President George W. Bush, right, talks with Prime Minister of Australia John Winston Howard, left, wearing traditional Chilean ponchos, Sunday. (AP /Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - An elaborate state dinner Sunday night for President George W. Bush was scrapped after U.S. and Chilean officials failed to agree on security measures at the presidential palace, the Chilean news media reported.

Bush and Chilean leader Ricardo Lagos instead were to hold an informal working dinner Sunday night following the close of the Asian-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit, leading Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reported Sunday.

The decision came Saturday night only hours after Bush intervened in a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who had barred the president's bodyguards from entering a dinner for 21 Pacific Rim leaders, including Prime Minister Paul Martin. <snip> more...

http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=b22d4b25-ee3d-436c-a83b-1d95c4f8ee7a

For those who read Spanish, here is the link to the El Mercurio story.

http://www.elmercurio.cl/2004/11/21/_portada/_portada/noticias/D3B4A24C-3D09-45E8-A396-5327CB149004.htm?id={D3B4A24C-3D09-45E8-A396-5327CB149004}

I can assure you that the new dinner arrangements are a polite way for the Chileans to say, you are no longer welcome.