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An Honourable Exit from Iraq

Letter to: The Editor Western Morning News Plymouth

24th September 2005

Dear Editor,

In order to get Bush and Blair to realise that honour does exist, we must explain how knowledge can get obscured for the individual.

The first fact to grasp, is that a person can have a mind of his own, in addition to having a brain inside his head.

A person is a spiritual being resident in a physical body that has a physical brain inside its skull.

But the person himself has a mind of his own so that we have body, mind and spirit.

You decide to run downstairs to see who is knocking at the front door. You tell your brain to do the running whilst you look into your mind for information as to who can be at the front door and for what reason.

Meanwhile you look out the window and decide it is a beautiful day.

Without the body, with its brain, you cannot do these things in the physical universe.

But you have to bear in mind that your greatest ability is to forget what you put in your mind.

And boy, are you good at storing horrible things in your mind, forgetting that they are there, and then have them restimulated by events and dictate to you how you must behave.

Now if we knew all that, we should avoid restimulating horrors of the past in others and provoking others to violence.

In Iraq we persistently provoke violence, because we do not have that knowledge, and then imagine we cannot escape.

All we have to do is acquire some extra new knowledge and all could be well.

Simple stuff really.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB