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The people of Mexico is good
people, the corrupt politicians are the problem!
Bush Sides With Mexican Killers Against U.S.
By Cliff Kincaid
June 13, 2007
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 that Bush is currently seeking immediate Senate
ratification of 35 different "treaty packages." He said these include the U.N.
Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a measure rejected by President Reagan and his
U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Bellinger didn't name any of the other "treaty
packages" that the administration wants to push through. But a number of radical
treaties are known to be pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, headed by
Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Joseph Biden.
Once again, it appears that Bush wants to ignore the concerns of conservatives in order
to work with liberal Democrats and advance a controversial legislative agenda.
International Law
"To put it simply," Bellinger said, "our critics sometimes paint the
United States as a country willing to duck or shrug off international obligations when
they prove constraining or inconvenient. That picture is wrong. The United States does
believe that international law matters. We help develop it, rely on it, abide by it,
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