Teribus, I don't think I'd want to spend more than a few seconds in your company either, but if you have been in the service you know that it is no different than civilian life in terms of who you find there: drug dealers, rapists, cheats, thiefs, adulterers, whores, idiots, half-wits, etc. as well as many honorable people who have taken an oath and really understood what it was they were mouthing. there are some fine people in the military but this glamorizing or hero worshipping of them is ridiculous. brave or courageous people exhibit their bravery or courage when necessary, in the military or out, and the cowards do the same. No cowards in the military? bs. that's not to say there aren't scared individuals who will do the job as best they can, they are not cowards. but the service is not the haven for the best and the brightest. it's a steady job with some benefits, and sometimes you get to kill people, which appeals to some miscreants as well. not all selfless, honourable, honest, loyal, or courageous any more than the rest of us. Bush and his policies are an embarrasment and un American, the people on the ground enforcing the policy are being used and abused, though some willingly and knowingly.
this letter is probably a hoax, but if it's real so what? Bush is still a coward, an idiot, a half-wit, a thief, a cheat, a liar and unfit to hold the office he usurped.