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[Michael Meltzer]

St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Washington, DC

Dear John:

Laura and I hope that you are continuing your excellent progress in recovery
from your mental problems. We were pleased to hear that you are now able to
have unsupervised visits with your parents. The staff at the hospital
reports that you are doing fine.

I have decided to seek a second term in office as your President, and I
would appreciate your support and the support of your fine parents. I would
hope that if there is anything that you need at the hospital, you will let
us know.

By the way, were you aware that John Kerry is screwing Jody Foster?

Sincerely,
George W. Bush
President

 - from Jay Pocius

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John Kerry, man of the common folk.... he understands your pain, really...
trust him - lol, yeah - right!

The many homes of Democrat Presidential candidate, John F. Kerry. Fox
Chapel, Pennsylvania (Assessed value: $3.7 million) Ketchum, Idaho ski
getaway/vacation home (Assessed value: $4.916 million) Washington, D.C -
Georgetown area (assessment: $4.7 million) Nantucket, Massachusetts
waterfront retreat on Brant Point (Assessed value: $9.18 million) Boston,
Massachusetts - Beacon Hill home (Assessed value: $6.9) oh, and he sold this
estate in Italy to activist actor George Clooney, just before announcing his
running for president. I guess he thought it might not sit well with the
common man. ($7.8 million) other foreign property ownership >by John Kerry
is unknown... because he denied repeated requests for this information.

 - from Sue Greene

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It is the VETERAN, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to
assemble.

It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair
trial.

It is the VETERAN, not the politician, who has given us the right to vote.

It is the VETERAN, who salutes the Flag, who serves under the Flag,

ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

I don't know if you saw this in the news but it really impressed me. Funny,
when Hurricane Isabelle hit, our US Senate/House took 2 days off as they
couldn't work. On the ABC evening news, it was reported that, because of the
dangers from Isabelle approaching Washington DC, the military members
assigned the duty of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were given
permission to suspend the assignment.

They refused.

Soaked to the skin, marching in the pelting rain of a tropical storm, they
said that guarding the Tomb was not just an assignment, it was the highest
honor that can be afforded to a serviceperson.

The tomb has been patrolled continuously, 24/7, since 1930. We can be very
proud of our young men and women in the service no matter where they serve.

God Bless them.

 - from Sue Greene

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Thank you, John Kerry, for helping make us Vietnam veterans war heroes now,
but you also were the primary reason that the American public grabbed sturdy
unbending brooms of judgment and swept us into the closet of silence and
shame for so many years. Now, with your latest unreported insanity, you are
getting ready for our society to grab those same stiff brooms and sweep our
brave, noble young men and women fighting against the War on Terror in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and elsewhere, into that cold, dark cell of heartbreak and
betrayal, like we Vietnam veterans had to endure in silent dignity. I cannot
and will not watch this country go through that again.

The hardcore America-hating, Israel-hating, jihad-spouting Muslim clerics in
the mideast are very excited and passing around a front page newspaper story
from the very anti-American TEHRAN TIMES in Iran. In the country that is
home of the world's toughest theocratic dictatorship, an e-mail from
Democratic Presidential nominee, you, John Forbes Kerry, sent to the paper
by your campaign committee, although they deny sending it, was printed
word-for-word on the front page of Iran's main newspaper. Your message
states emphatically that, if elected President, you, John Kerry plan to,
within 100 days, not only end the War on Terror, but travel to the mideast
and elsewhere and apologize for our actions and the actions of President
Bush in the War on Terror. It says that you plan to apologize to friends and
foes alike. That is right, folks. John Kerry will say he is sorry, and in
his mind, all those jihad extremists, who have vowed to kill all Americans
wherever we are, will simply forgive us, hold hands with Kerry, start
singing "Kumbaya," and all will be right in the world. This is insane!

Senior writer Kenneth R. Timmerman in the March 1st edition of INSIGHT,
tells about the massive campaign contributions to the Kerry-for-President
campaign by three Iranian businessmen living in the US, who are lobbying for
the US lifting of sanctions on Iran and accepting the anti-Christian,
anti-Jewish, anti-American Tehran regime and the close ties of one to the
chairman of Mobil Oil.

Pro-democracy dissidents in Iran are shocked and appalled at your remarks,
and have reported that in Iran and other Mideastern countries, that all the
extremists and anti-west mullahs who strongly supported the attacks on the
World Trade Center, Pentagon, USS Cole, Marine Barracks, and anyplace
Americans congregate, want you to become our President, but they are scared
to death of George W. Bush. Just think, The Democratic candidate for
President, you, John Forbes Kerry, is endorsed by the Al Q'Aida, Hezbollah,
PLF, and Hamas.

But on February 27, 2004, in a speech at UCLA , you, while trying to talk
tough, despite voting against all major weapons systems for the past 18
years, stated that you will continue the War on Terror, but would use our
police forces, and especially those in foreign countries, and you would also
put our troops back under the powder blue flag of the United Nations. You
recently made comments about Bush making troops fight without Kevlar vests,
but you, Senator Kerry, voted against buying them while you were in the
Senate.

Like the Kama Sutra, Senator, you change positions constantly. You're not
going to end the War on Terror, but instead use police to handcuff
terrorists and read them their rights; then a week later, you are going to
end the War on Terrorism and apologize to everyone we have offended, such as
Iran. What is it going be next week, Kerry? You flip-flop more than a
beached tuna on steroids.

You convinced TV reporters Chris Wallace on Fox and NBC's Tim Russert that a
photograph circulating the web and news showing you a few rows away from
Jane Fonda at a September, 1970 Anti-War Rally at Valley Forge, was simply a
coincidence and that you and Hanoi Jane barely knew each other. But, in
fact, Senator, there were only 8 speakers that day, including Fonda, Donald
Southerland, and Bella Abzug, and Hanoi Jane funded that rally, and the
keynote speaker was you, John Forbes Kerry, executive committee member of
Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

We must be Americans first, and think about our political parties after
that. Sometimes we lose sight of that. I have six grown children and two are
democrats. I voted for Jimmy Carter. This is not about politics. It is about
standing up to the ultimate playground bully, and not simply cowering and
kissing his shoes.

I left it "all on the field" in the jungles back there when I was medevaced
out of Vietnam in March of 1969 and sent back to hospitals in "The World."
Although You, Mr. Kerry, painted all of us Vietnam veterans with the yellow
brush of My Lai and Tiger Force, most of us, draftees and lifers alike,
actually poured our hearts out in the tropical rain forests and in the rice
paddies, thoroughly gave it our all, and acted as warriors who had honor. I
have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now and a
daughter-in-law on orders for Iraq. I am not going to stand by and watch
them go through the same treatment we did, because some of our well-meaning
fellow Americans choose to wear blinders and believe things just because
they heard it on the network news or simply not care enough to get involved.

I am not a "baby-killer, torturer, or murderer," John Kerry. I am a Vietnam
veteran and an American who will not soon forget, or ever want to see again,
any more jets loaded with fuel and screaming, innocent Americans slamming
into our buildings on our very own soil. I have shed enough tears for ten
lifetimes. We all have. I will never again let my fellow countrymen get away
with making American veterans feel like bastard step-children.

Santayana said, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat
it."

John Kerry, I now call on my "Band of Brothers," those who have heard the
sound of guns and cries of orphaned children, those who hate war more than
anyone who has not been there, to join me in this difficult battle ahead.
Republicans, democrats, independents, and the apolitical, I call on the
25,000,000 veterans of this country to help me confront this evil facing our
great nation, not with guns and bombs, but with our voices, our votes, our
computers, and with all our fighting spirit.

My fellow veterans, your families, survivors, and neighbors: God bless you
and God bless America.

 --Don Bendell (former green beret captain, who served in Vietnam on an
A-Team and in the Top Secret Phoenix program in 1968 and 1969, as well as in
three other Special Forces Groups)

 - from Carol Bagshaw

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AN OPEN LETTER TO CONDOLEEZZA RICE
"You Are a Liar"

by Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing

Hon. Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

April 9, 2004

Dear Ms. Rice:

I am writing to communicate four points regarding your testimony yesterday
under oath before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States.

Point #1: You are a liar.

Attorney General Ashcroft sits on the National Security Council. Warned by
his FBI security detail, the head of law enforcement for the United States
knew to avoid commercial airlines on September 11, 2001.

It was your job as National Security Advisor to make sure that the people
who flew on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, United
Airlines Flight 93 and American Airlines Flight 77 had the benefit of the
same warnings as those they paid to protect us.

You knew. You kept silent. They died.

You had numerous warnings of the risks of 9-11 - sufficient to let the
American people know and use their best judgment as to how to protect
themselves from a possible attack. It was your job as National Security
Advisor to make sure that the people in the South Tower of the World Trade
Center had the knowledge they needed to evacuate their building upon seeing
the North Tower hit by a plane.

You knew. You kept silent. They died.

Point #2: Your motives are transparent.

The World Trade Center is in the heart of New York City - one of the great
financial capitals of the world. The Pentagon is in the heart of
Washington -- the appropriation and accounting capital for the US federal
budget and credit and the US Treasury - the largest issuer of securities in
the world.

Unlike many other terrorist attacks, these attacks killed people whose
family, friends and neighbors understand how these financial systems work.
Victim families, friends and the residents of the communities directly
harmed can calculate who made money on 9-11 profiteering. They can trace the
flow of money into the 2004 Presidential campaign coffers from the profits
your supporters made as a result of 9-11 profiteering. They can calculate
how 9-11 profiteering connects to the financing and silence of corporate
media.

Those personally impacted and the global researchers they network with have
the intellectual power and personal courage to ask and answer, "Cui Bono?"
(Who Benefits?) They understand that your success as National Security
Advisor is as a direct result of your failure to stop 9-11. They can see how
your lies about 9-11 made money for the investment syndicate that put you in
power and for the buyers of US Treasury securities who are so richly paid to
finance the US military, intelligence and enforcement apparatus and the
defense contractors and oil interests it serves.

All the campaign ads in the world can not now convince the American people
that you have their best interests at heart.

Point #3: You are going down.

The richest and most powerful people in the world pay for performance. They
pay you to make the US governmental apparatus look legitimate while they use
it to centralize economic and political power. That means they need liars
who are better at lying than you.

The myth that you had no idea that Americans deserved to be warned about the
risks of flying or planes being used as weapons is now in the dust heap with
the notion that the United States attacked Iraq and our soldiers are dying
to protect us from Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Your lies of 9-11 - like your lies about the Iraqi war - have been
profitable for the military-banking complex you represent. These lies,
however, have not misled the crowd. The American people and global citizens
are looking for the truth. We demand the changes that will give meaning and
honor to those who died on 9-11 and in the ensuing wars. We demand an end to
further bloodshed. We demand a refund of all that you and your backers have
stolen from those of us who remain alive.

Point #4: You are guilty of criminal gross negligence.

If you want to catch a terrorist today, you need look no further than your
own mirror.

Many Americans gather this weekend to give thanks that Jesus died for our
sins and gave us the covenant of grace. In the spirit of our Lord's
crucification and resurrection, may God have mercy on your soul.

Sincerely Yours,

Catherine Austin Fitts
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Bush I
President
Solari, Inc
PO Box 157
Hickory Valley, TN 38042
731.764.2515
catherine at solari.com