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To: Road Walker who wrote (223219)	3/10/2005 12:26:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576435

Meanwhile, in a world in which the United States desperately needs international cooperation on everything from curbing the trade in terrorist weaponry to presenting a united front to countries like Iran and Syria, President Bush is spending his political capital on getting John Bolton, a longtime critic of multilateralism, as representative to the United Nations. When are these political pundits going to realize that Bush does not care about his political capital. He has an agenda and he's not about to let a puny thing like political capital keep him from implementing it. *************************************************** U.S. Quits Accord on Diplomatic Access to Inmates** Thu Mar 10, 2005 08:37 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has withdrawn from an international agreement that gives jailed foreigners the right to talk to consular officers, a protocol that critics of capital punishment used to win reviews of death sentences given to 51 Mexicans jailed here. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher confirmed a report in the Washington Post on Thursday that the United States had decided to pull out of the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. "All these people have the right to raise their issues in court," Boucher told reporters traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a trip to Mexico, which opposes U.S. death penalty policies. Boucher said that given some of the interpretations made by the World Court "we didn't want any more of them." condition.................... reuters.com