Bush Sides With Mexican Killers Against U.S.

AIM Report ^ | 6/12/07 | Cliff Kincaid

[Mike Bates]

The State Department's top legal adviser told international lawyers on June 6 that President Bush is so committed to the primacy of international law that he has taken his home state of Texas to court on behalf of a group of Mexican killers. The Mexicans had been sentenced to death for murdering U.S. citizens, including young children.

John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, cited the case, Mexico v. United States of America, in trying to convince the attorneys that the administration is doing what it can to enforce international law in U.S. courts.

In the case, Bush has come down on the same side as the U.N.'s International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ruled 14-1 on behalf of Mexico against the U.S. The ICJ was headed at the time by a judge from communist China, who also ruled against the U.S.

Bellinger's audience was gathered at The Hague, a city in the Netherlands which is home to over 100 international organizations, including the U.N.'s International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

Sworn in as the Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State on April 8, 2005, Bellinger is described by the State Department as "the principal adviser on all domestic and international law matters to the Department of State, the Foreign Service, and the diplomatic and consular posts abroad."

The Bellinger speech, designed to convince the pro-U.N. globalists in attendance that Bush is really on their side, should have been big news. Not only did he praise Bush for coming down on the side of foreign killers of Americans, in a major court case with international implications, but he demonstrated how far the administration is prepared to go to impress the "international community."

In a major disclosure, Bellinger said. . .

[Paperdoll]

Has he completely flipped out?

[lowbridge]

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[Guenevere]

bttt

[Obie Wan]

Well let’s not forget what El Presidente said yesterday in Europe, “see you at the signing” !!!

[lesser_satan]

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[Cinnamon]

this illegal immigration crappola will be President Bush’s undoing. it is as if he is working for the Mexicans, and completely forgotten who put him in office. You work for U.S. Citizens President Bush!

[Cicero]

Good grief. Unbelievable.

This post should be put in Breaking News, in my opinion. It’s a week or so old, but it couldn’t be more important at this particular time. Evidently it was swept under the rug and has only just been noticed by Cliff Kincaid of AIM.

I hope the moderators will read this and consider giving it top billing if it deserves it.

[VOA]

The State Department's top legal adviser told international
lawyers on June 6 that President Bush is so committed to the
primacy of international law that he has taken his home state of
Texas to court on behalf of a group of Mexican killers.

If only partially true...I'm done with Dubya.
And will feel VERY good about that.

I pray this is a false news report.

[Tarkus2040]

Well let’s not forget what El Presidente said yesterday in Europe, “see you at the signing” !!!

To which I replied, "see you in Hell, Bush!"

[Uri’el-2012]

President Bush is so committed to the primacy of international law that he has taken his home state of Texas to court on behalf of a group of Mexican killers.

W is not a native Texan.

He is a yankee carpet-bagger from Connecticut.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Bellinger acknowledged that "The first defendant to try to take advantage of the President's decision was in the state of Texas, which objected to the President's decision. In response, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the President had no power to intervene in its affairs, even to obtain compliance with an order of the ICJ. This Administration has gone to the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse this decision. We expect a ruling from that Court this time next year."

So here we have a case of the Bush Administration going to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to enforce compliance with an international court! And the case involves litigating against the President's home state of Texas!"

[freekitty]

If this is true, I hardly know what to say.

[PhiKapMom]

I feel the same way. I have had it with Bush and his entire Administration and don’t want them near any of our candidates in 2008. Hope Rove packs up his suitcase and goes away — heard he is also pushing the Immigration Bill behind the scenes.

[DLfromthedesert]

Is this the same president who refused to sign the United States on with the World Court in the Hague?

[samtheman]

Sometime in early or mid 2001 I remember a Saturday Night Life skit showing President Bush at a White House party stoned out of his gourd on the drug ecstasy. At the time, though I knew it was just mindless liberals trying to salve the great wound of losing the algore, I had to admit, the piece was amusing. Never in my wildest dreams, though, did I imagine, way back then, that the day would finally come when I would actually come to believe it:

This President is on drugs.

Major. Heavy. Mind debilitating drugs. There is no other explanation for the downward spiral of his thinking and his leadership in the last year or so.

[Obie Wan]

I can just hear him now with that weaselie George Bush laugh heh,heh,heh !!!

[Duke Nukum]

It’s like he’s the Mexican Candidate.

[rockabyebaby]

This is HUGH and SERIES. I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell ya.

[pissant]

Hey, welcome back!!