It has always saddened me that whilst as children we are told that to lie is bad and deceit is dispicable,we grow up to discover that much of society is built and run on lies and deceit.
As the inquiry into the Iraq war goes on I read that Tony Blair says that ‘even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction it would have been right to remove Saddam Hussein’.
Hmm last I heard was that no weapons were ever found, no weapons no evidence.
He went on that if the evidence of weapons of mass destruction had not been there then they would have had to use a different argument.
In other words , as many suspected, their minds were made up and any argument would have suited.
How can parents or others involved with the raising of children ever hope to instill proper values in the coming generations when clear evidence that those who proport to have the publics best interest at heart lie and deceive on a daily basis is all around.
In the age of the internet and with youngsters often more attuned to web technology than their elders the best of guardians advice and direction is being constantly undermined those in power.
I for one am not arguing that Saddam Hussein should not have been removed.But I would have been far more supportive of the action if it had been done with honesty. Far better that they had said ‘ he’s a tyrant, he commits genocide, he has to go’. Maybe that doesn’t sit with United Nations protocol or the Geneva convention or whatever rules they are meant to follow but as it seems that they used deceit to ride roughshod over all that any way I can’t see that that matters.