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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Done, gone. who wrote (507714)	12/11/2003 11:02:36 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I was also unaware that GWB hand-writes a letter to the family of each soldier killed. The reason you are unaware of this is because it isn't true. At best, the families of fallen victims might get a facsimile of the President's signature.

To: Done, gone. who wrote (507714)	12/11/2003 11:46:30 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769667

<font color=navy>So I asked some families about the sympathy letters they had received. I assumed that they were in the Bush family style. Both his father and his mother come from a generation of note writers. His mother’s Christmas list is notoriously long and his father is famous for his handwritten notes. This Bush has followed suit, often using his thick Sharpie to pen short notes to friends, foes and fund-raisers. But those are not the letters Bush is “writing.” They are form letters. With the exception of the salutation and a reference to the fallen soldier in the text, the letters the families shared with me are all the same. Now some one has gone to the trouble of finding out if the given name of the solider and the name he or she used were different. And Bush does sign them all personally. But it would be more accurate to say he is “sending” all the families letters, a practice that goes back many presidents.</font> msnbc.com