Hi Dean,

>>I dont think so. Most "evil" commited by the average person is borne out of ignorance. I don't think people are bad by nature.
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>By nature do childen know how to share with others? Do they know to say tahnk you? Do they know to be polite?, do they know right form wrong?
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>No. They must be taught these things. By nature they are bad (But cute).

:) I'm not talking about this kind of "bad".



>>Yes, the problems are complex and deep with lots of historical baggage. But if there's a will there's a way. Or we could just bomb everybody and anybody who we think is a threat and feel much safer for it ;)
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>If there is a will there's a way? What the heck does that mean? Talking in cliche now? Just thinking about it won't solve anything. How long does one have to think? Does it take a lot of thinking to know that killing in the name of some hoky religion is evil?

Getting back to the point on which I entered this thread and where my comments are directed, namely the Iraq invasion, if there was a will to find an alternative option to that of invading Iraq then the powers that be would have found it. There are some very clever people around after all. The powers that be decided they wanted to go to war. That was a choice and now we can all live with it.