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It seems dozens of upbeat letters from US servicemen at the Iraq front have been sent to smallish newspapers around the country, emphasizing the troops' high morale and pride in a job well done. Detractors from this spontaneous outpouring of patriotic enthusiasm have sniffed that the letters are identical. The sensible conclusion--that the experiences, feelings and resulting articulations of men tested in the same fires, forged in the same crucible, can be expected to bear strong similarities--seems to have escaped these nattering nabobs. This completely predictable outcome should be doubly expected from an institution such as the Army, whose first objective is to destroy individual identity and re-create it as an instance of the group mind.

But that does not settle the matter. It seems the cynical pawns of peace that infest our national press corps have extracted from these servicemen signatories eerily uniform denials of ever having written the letters. This has been widely interpreted as evidence of a right-wing conspiracy to "spin" the Iraq war. The far more likely possibility, that true patriots have selflessly provided a needed service to our busy protectors overseas by expressing their sincere, unfiltered thoughts and feelings directly to the American People, has evidently not even been considered by the know-it-all liberal punditry.

But two can play this game. For those who see a conspiracy under every rock, here is a chance for the pot to call the kettle black. By far the most likely explanation for this non-event is that anti-American forces inside our own borders (Democrats and Socialists of course), possibly in concert with Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, have created then conveniently "exposed" this Potemkin plot for their own dark purposes.

The threat of the natural alliance between the enemies of American ideals (Al Qaeda, France et al) and American industry (Greens, Socialists, Commies, gooks, perverts, rapists, pederasts, homos and atheists) cannot be overstated and must not be ignored.

Sincerely,

A Concerned Citizen