Torture the Bush Way

The Geneva Convention has very clear, precise, and stringent rules outlining what forms of behaviors constitute as torture. Accordingly, all nations under the UN umbrella must adhere, practice, safeguard, and propragate the principles regarding human life decreeed by the Covention. However, with the release of the torture memos under the Bush administration, it is easy to discern how the rules of the Geneva Convention were manipulated, contorted, maligned, and at times even wholly disregarded in President Bush's path of capturing the perpetrators of 9/11. The memos are at once highly disturbing and intriguing to see the extent the Bush administration resorted to in utilizing any means to justify their ends or their causes. The fiasco of Abu Ghraib prison prominently comes to mind. But there are and must have been other Abu Ghraibs in different international locales propagating the Bush administration's newly defined terms of torture and applicable torturing methods. That said, it is quite encouraging to note that the Obama administration, in the pursuit of truth and transparency, have disclosed the memos. However, one can question, why shouldn't the masterminds of these blatant disregard of the Geneva Convention and of human life not be held accountable for their actions? What immunes them from being prosecuted for defining and perpetrating heinous crimes on humans in their pursuit of an ideal world? Even though the Bush administration is long past deceased, their actions over the last seven years carries far reaching and palpable consequences across the globe and through the age. The Bush legacy holds strong and travels far. It would be a great shame for the Obama adminstration to NOT create an impartial committtee that can thoroughly investigate any and all trangressions against human life conducted under Bush's regime. It may be all in the past, but we are now bearing the brunt of all the mistakes and miscalculations committed by President Bush and his cronies. They must be brought to justice.