How insults and prayers became our way of life

The first casualty in any war is always the truth. We are living in interesting times reminiscent of the times of Guardian’s greatest writer C P Scott who posited that “Comment is free, but facts are sacred”, which in our contemporary society has endured as the ultimate statement of values in a free world.

Truth becomes relative to a fact and facts become blurred lines between opinions. In the early 2000s, the Americans attacked Iraq on the flimsiest of grounds and the ludicrous of facts. All of these facts and truths were imagined realities in the mind of George W. Bush and the veracity of them was tested by the blood of many an innocent  Iraqi.