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A Soldier's Father Speaks Out

A gentleman from Virginia, proud parent of a decorated Army officer serving in Iraq, writes to us, "I am so fed up with the anti-American propaganda coming from some Americans that I wrote the open letter below. I will appreciate it very much if you include it": [text of letter follows]

An open letter to some political partisans, especially certain politicians and people in the media: I have a son who is an American soldier in Iraq.

I care very much about what affects him and his comrades in arms.

I am not fooled, when you partisans spew propaganda that helps our enemies and harms our soldiers, then tell us you support our troops.

I am not fooled, when you focus on, highlight, and exaggerate the negative things that happen in Iraq, while ignoring our positive accomplishments, then tell us you support our troops.

I am not fooled, when you focus attention on American soldiers killed and wounded in Iraq, to use these brave patriots as an anti-Iraq-war political football, then tell us you support our troops.

I am not fooled, when you keep criticizing why and how we invaded Iraq - that is done; our troops are there - then tell us you support our troops.

I am not fooled, when you engage in constant, carping criticism of what the U.S. has done and is doing in Iraq, then tell us you support our troops.

I am not fooled, when you search for and trumpet to the world anything that will diminish respect for our soldiers and their leaders - even when it endangers greatly their lives, then tell us you support our troops.

I am not fooled, when you tell our soldiers and the rest of us that they are stuck in a "quagmire" and will suffer a Vietnam-type defeat, then tell us you support our troops.

I am not fooled, when you spout propaganda that undermines the morale of our soldiers and the American public and boosts the morale of our enemies, then tell us you support our troops.

You are giving aid and comfort to our nation's deadly enemies! They know they cannot defeat us militarily in Iraq. However, you cause them to think they can win here politically by breaking our will, if they kill and wound enough of our soldiers.

You despicable partisans! You are stimulating our enemies to attack our soldiers and the people working with them. The blood of many Americans and Iraqis is already on your hands. And your hands collect more blood every day!

You are determined to regain the political power you have lost, and you believe your presidential candidate and congressional candidates will win, if the U.S. fails in Iraq.

If your anti-American propaganda contributes to the deaths of many Americans and Iraqis, that is a price you are willing to make them pay. You are pathetic and dangerous!

I am not fooled, when you contemptible politicians and other political partisans, including many in the media, tell us you support our troops. I know that is a lie!

I am not fooled, when you claim spreading your pernicious, divisive, anti-American venom makes you patriotic. I know it does not - and I know you are not!

3. Mystic: Iraqi Prisoner Photos a 'Set-up'

We usually don't report on psychic phenomena - "out there" as it is.

Still, we get some unusual observations over the transom from time to time.

One mystic we have covered is Elizabeth Baron of elizabethbaron.com, who seemed to have great revelations during the Washington sniper story. Days before police captured Muhammad and Malvo, Baron was on a national radio program (it was recorded) and said the feds had it all wrong: there were two shooters, one younger, another older; that they were motivated by religion; and that they were driving a blue car. At the time, FBI profilers said there was only a single white male conducting the killings, and reports had him driving a white van.

As it turned out, the older Muhammad and the younger Malvo, both Muslims, were captured in a blue car days later.

Interestingly, Baron e-mailed us early this week and said the revelation she got from a saint told her that "the people in the videotape who are doing the Iraqi prisoners wrong --- that is a setup."

We found it interesting that this reference to a "videotape" came days before Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon first said that the abuse scandal includes videotape of these incidents.

"I cannot understand why the public has not picked up this information," Baron's revelation offered, adding that there are some powerful forces behind this story.

"The authority goes pretty high up but it is a setup to make the President of the United States and to make America look stupid and to be seen with two faces," she said.

Here are some more revelations that we can't endorse but certainly find interesting:

"It is very important for the President to get to the culprit. The man [or woman] who is behind all that wears a tan uniform and has two stars on his shoulders. He is an individual who hates the American way and wants to see changes in America. He does not have an interest in winning a war. That is definitely not his interest. This man has been paid millions and millions of dollars to do this awful thing. It doesn't take someone who is really bright to look at these videos and see that they are staged. And everything that was done was staged so that it would look so ridiculous. It is important for the Intelligence to get to the bottom of this. They will find that an officer [which could be a man or a woman] who is very high up will have money put in a Swiss bank. It will not be in his name though. It will be in a woman's name who is connected with him/her and she is not American. She is not his wife; she is a girlfriend, but this money will be transferred around in years to come. This money was put together by a number of people who got together and planted this little scheme right in the middle of political battles in America. It was meant to make the President look silly. It is important for everyone to pray for peace because this war can go into another war and that could go into another war and as you know, two of the most dangerous places on earth are Iran and North Korea. These people have the ability to create mass destruction in many ways so it is important for everyone to pray for peace at this time."