BLIND JUSTICE  (CONT)

or lying in Texas death penalty cases as well as racial and class disparities in sentencing.

''I'm absolutely confident that everybody that has been put to death ... are guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts,'' Bush said.

Going by the Atlantic article, Bush spent so little time reviewing cases because Gonzales gave him so little to review. This should raise some serious questions. It should make Americans wonder what Gonzales would omit on the Supreme Court. On a much broader scale, it sends Bush's global credibility into a steeper nose-dive.

A few years ago, Bush justified killing prisoners in an arrangement where he conveniently received no intelligence. Today Bush is accused of either cooking intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to justify a war that has killed thousands of Iraqi civilians. So far Bush has had little to show for his various forms of intelligence, except for mass destruction.

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