Bush continues to alienate world

[struggle4progress]

By Bill Gallagher

<snip> The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations gives people arrested abroad the right to contact their home countries' embassies or consulates. The United States signed the protocol to protect its own citizens.

The treaty gives the International Court of Justice in the Hague -- the World Court -- the final say in cases in which foreign citizens claim their access to their own consulates was denied.

The World Court ruled last year that the Mexican nationals were not given the treaty protection and required American state courts to grant "review and reconsideration" to claims that their cases had been hurt because local authorities failed to allow them to contact their consulates.

The decision would not get the inmates off Death Row. It only required a hearing. But the Busheviks would have none of that. How dare anyone tell us what to do! We'll just withdraw from the protocol. Peter J. Spiro, an international law professor from the University of Georgia, told The New York Times that the United States' behavior was "a sore-loser kind of move," saying, "If we can't win, we're not going to play." <snip>

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher205.html

[bridgit]

1. he's just sticking with what he does best

:shrug:

[whistle]

2. Bush is about to launch WW-III and the nuclear holocaust

...I just hope that the world can stop him before he presses the button. New theory out that Dubya was responsible for the murder of JFK Jr and that GHW Bush Sr was behind the assassinations of JFK, MLK, Robert Kennedy and even John Wellstone. Nothing surprises me any longer about the Bush crime family.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Where is that theory from...a website...magazine? n/t

[whistle]

4. See this DU discussion thread from earlier today and view the....

...various links provided

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3274455&mesg_id=3274455&page=

[peacetalksforall]

5. Thanks, that was an excellent read and loaded with new links. n/t

[th2techdude]

6. We appear to be trying to unite, but.......

This just goes to show that these so-called "traditionalists" are very out of touch with today's reality. Well, not to worry, though. The Republicans are running out of Superstars, and Bush is their last one.

[whistle]

7. The last Nazi idea does not give me much comfort, besides....

...puppets can be mass produced and there are lots more from where this jerk came from. We must rid ourselves of the real devils

[indepat]

8. Winning hearts and minds, one at a time