[Fred Mertz]

Grab a grip on reality. This is what's gonna happen, like it or not.

I don't like it either.

[CWOJackson]

Of course it's going to happen. I have no doubt what-so-ever that the I hate Bush at any excuse crowd will use this and Miss Cleo's predictions to try attack the President. Bottom line is that this person's letter is simply one of many, many thousands of letters received by the White House by ever so qualified experts...all of whom are righteously convinced the future of everything rests with their opinion.

We know very little about the author of this letter other then he has credentials of unknown value. We don't know the real value of his credentials or the reason he resigned. To be giving the letter any sort of credit at this point is very premature.

Beside that, a little common decency would cause most people to wait a few days before going on their tirades of blames. There will be plenty of time for finger pointing and scoring of political points in the months to follow...a decent interim period of calm in honour of the dead doesn't hurt.