I don't think God would approve

The most common cause of Institutional Corruption is a conflict of interest. The UK government, it appears, has been paying bribes for years to obtain lucrative arms deals (according to the BBC and the Guardian). The Serious Fraud Office was about to expose the government's illegal complicity in this (breaking their own anti-corruption laws). The government needs Saudi Arabia's help in the Arab world because, well, let's face it, they don't have many friends there just now. So the government decided to halt an anti-corruption investigation, which was about to show the government of the UK was acting corruptly, in order to 'protect the national interest'.

Several conflicts of interest there, so no surprise that this is a good example of institutional corruption. It's the same 'we are the government, so protecting us is protecting the national interest' bullshit that got Nixon impeached [almost - Ed], and it's the same shit that has the NHS being torn apart by 'corrupt' mangers gaming targets to give 'corrupt' politicians nice numbers to read out to parliament, the press, and anyone else who still listens to politicians (of which there are less and less, largely because the corruption is becoming so evident).

The irony is that the reason Tony Blair give for killing an anti-corruption investigation into his own government's illegal activities was to keep happy an ally that he and Bush need badly because they invaded a country that was no direct threat after God told them to do it ('I did what I thought was right' was Blair's way of saying what Bush characteristically said more directly as 'God told me to invade Iraq, and I invaded Iraq').

Now call me old fashioned, but I don't think that's how Christianity works. I don't think God tells people to 'Do The Right Thing' when it involves parachuting the troops in to kill and get killed in their thousands, but God then conveniently says 'Do The Wrong Thing and Lie Like Fuck' when the rozzers are about to expose corruption in your government.

I'm not even sure that God tells people to raze countries to the ground. If I recall correctly, that's a bit Old Testament, which is more up the Israelis street (but that's a whole different rant). I think you'll find that the whole point of Christ dying on the cross was to end all of that Killing People in the Name of God shit, and I think it's reasonably safe to assume that a God who sent his own Son to die so we'd get the 'turn the other cheek' message loud and clear, is going to be pretty pissed at the fact that Bush and Blair are trying to bring Holy Wars back into fashion (remember the Operation Crusade codename that they tried to use for the invasion of Afghanistan - I mean, come on! [It was Operation Infinite Justice, but Bush did refer to it as a Crusade early on - Ed]).

No, I think this is just another case of screaming narcisists mistaking their own internal voices for The Voice of God. You can always tell screaming narcisists who mistake their own internal voices for The Voice of God, because God always seems agree with them. Since God doesn't always seem to agree with even himself, this is a dead giveaway.

Top tip, Tone. You can't occupy the moral high ground if you're a lying cheating bastard who will do anything to achieve your ends.