Lie does not pay

This illegal war was based on wholesale lies with revolting cruelties of all kinds. Some very enlightened western journalists have very graphically depicted the brutality. In this context it is painful to recall that a state like Japan forgetting the past awful tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American Bombs has now turned up as an assertive protagonist of American aggression. Demonstrations against this war were held all over the world including Britain and USA but this could not deter Bush and Blair nor could the sublime sentiments of the founding fathers of America like Jeffarson, Admas etc. embodied in the preamble of their constitution, "All men are endowed by their creator with some inalienable rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness...". On the contrary they divided the world community into two hostile camps and also created rift between the Muslims and the Christians.

As no lies can long remain secret in a democratic society the colossal lie of Bush and Blair about the possession of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light putting them in insurmountable difficulties which they now confront at home and abroad.

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Actuated by dishonest motive of perpetuating Anglo-American grip on the Arab world Bush-Blair have been ceaselessly protracting Saddam Hussein in the blackest of hue but thanks to the honest efforts of some western journalists we have once again got a true colour of the event. Mr. Scot and Mr. John Pilger boldly expressed that, although an absolute autocrat, Saddam Hussein out of his oil income "created a welfare state of the highest order to help everybody to get the necessaries of life and other amenities at a normal cost." According to the Economist's intelligence unit "the Iraqi welfare state until recently was among the most comprehensive and generous in the Arab world".

Finally in this context we can say that man can lie but circumstances cannot. The awful nature of the Iraqi war has tremendously shakened the moral fabric of the world. The rhetoric of Bush and Blair of democracy and civil liberty can no longer mislead Iraqi people so they are clamouring for immediate withdrawal of the army of occupation and stoppage of the oil piracy and pillage. And everyday there's an American casualty in occupied Iraq.

M Amir Ali is an educationist.