[rollo tomasi]

Is this legit?

If so, wow, politicians like Bush are beyond evil, truth and justice is the enemy to them although they give appearance of embracing it.

Makes me think this is all BS though, can’t imagine Pres. Bush doing this. Is accuracy in the media some fringe kook site? Maybe they might be leaving some facts out to fit an agenda.

[Obie Wan]

Makes me think this is all BS though, can’t imagine Pres. Bush doing this.

I know two guys who wouln’t be surprised by this.Their names are Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean !!!

[gargoyle]

...???legit!!! say it’s not true! oh my, oh my!!!

[ChildOfThe60s]

He is doing it and the only agenda here is Bush’s. And it’s not your welfare, and it’s not protecting US sovereignty.

State’s rights? Same place as your’s....in the toilet.

[DumpsterDiver]

Makes me think this is all BS though, can't imagine Pres. Bush doing this. Is accuracy in the media some fringe kook site?

If I remember correctly, Mexico claims that 51 Mexican nationals were denied their right to speak to the Mexican consulate when they were arrested. Bush wants the states to review each of their trials, convictions, etc.

Here is Bush's statement from February of 2005 regarding this.

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 28, 2005

Memorandum for the Attorney General

SUBJECT: Compliance with the Decision of the International Court of Justice in Avena

The United States is a party to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (the "Convention") and the Convention's Optional Protocol Concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes (Optional Protocol), which gives the International Court of Justice (ICJ) jurisdiction to decide disputes concerning the "interpretation and application" of the Convention.

I have determined, pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, that the United States will discharge its international obligations under the decision of the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America) (Avena), 2004 ICJ 128 (Mar. 31), by having State courts give effect to the decision in accordance with general principles of comity in cases filed by the 51 Mexican nationals addressed in that decision.

GEORGE W. BUSH