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To: Ilaine who wrote (42951)	5/8/2004 7:54:18 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 793720

<<He says the US started the war in Iraq based on lies with a hidden agenda and so forth. He's one of those people who "knows" that "Bush lied." Not sure whether he thinks it's all about the Joooos and/or the Neocons and/or oil and/or capitalism and/or Bushs' corporate buddies, but he "knows" the truth. He's a whacko.>> You have that straight!!

To: Ilaine who wrote (42951)	5/8/2004 9:26:27 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793720

I know for a fact that I wouldn't have gone along with it Of course not. Neither would I. We aren't in that position, though, and wouldn't be. If you give a bunch of adolescents guns and put them in absolute control of other people, especially people that they are predisposed to view with contempt, the chances of abuse are very, very high. People with internal loci of control don't conform when conforming violates their personal integrity. People with external loci of control conform because they don't have a strong sense of personal integrity. We aren't born with an internal locus of control. We develop it with time and experience. Military training is specifically designed to break down the internal locus of control - soldiers are supposed to do what they are told to do, not what their sense of personal integrity tells them is right. If you create that vacuum and fail to fill it with supervision and discipline, the results are likely to be ugly. The experiments were largely superfluous, like running taste tests to prove people like chocolate. It's nothing we didn't already know.