Bush is against capital punishment after all. Imagine that.

[Contrary1]

Make sure you read the entire article. The irony and hypocrisy is mind boggling.

Bush, Texas at Odds Over Death Case

WASHINGTON - To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out.

The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.

That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it makes similar decisions affecting state criminal laws.

"The president does not agree with the ICJ's interpretation of the Vienna Convention," the administration said in arguments filed with the court. This time, though, the U.S. agreed to abide by the international court's decision because ignoring it would harm American interests abroad, the government said..."

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/10/07/782079.html&cvqh=itn_bush

[Myrina]

1. ... what is he up to?

The Sociopathic Little Shit never passed up an opportunity for an execution prior to this ... something must be going on behind the scenes ...

[liberalmuse]

2. He's a war criminal and guilty of treason at the very least.

The penalty for both crimes is death. I think he's looking out for #1.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Yep. Once he's a private citizen again he doesn't want to be

arrested next time he sets foot in Spain. (as if he ever would.)