Has anyone actually SEEN the letter of support for * from 9/11 families?

If so, please post a link. I've looked everywhere for the last few days, to no avail.

I'm beginning to believe it's a product of Karl Rove. I mean, how could anyone who lost friends or family members that day approve of the use of human remains on a campaign commercial???

was that 22 or 23 people had signed it. That's pretty pitiful considering that almost 3000 people die that day and they could only find a handful of family members to sign the darn thing.

3,000 people died that day.

I wouldn't find it so hard to believe that among relatives of those 3,000 people one could find at least 1,000 that support Bush to such an extent that they don't really care that they will never know why their family member died.

would speculate of the 22 most are distant relatives too

"My therd cuzin was keeled in the Septimbur eleventh attacks, and I don't think we need to be investigatin nobody in the adminuhstrashun. I think we ought to be investigatin the Clintuns."

The only name I've seen listed is one Jimmy Boyle, a firefighter. That's it. If this letter really exists, one would think copies would be released to the press, given the outrage to the ads.

If this is indeed a Rovian trick, I think it's really important to expose it as yet another exploitive move of the 9/11 families by the Bush administration.

of communists that he used to flash around. Only now we know that there wasn't a list or any communists, if it worked once.

and that they support Bush in 04.

Or are they, like the "blue-collar types" in the tax cut photo op, the July 4 "tourists" at the Lincoln Memorial, and now the "firefighters" in the bu$h ad, merely actors from Central Casting?

that support Bush does not seem to prove much.

I have heard of a letter - but have not seen it.

The Bush admin's retort to criticism of using human remains as a campaign prop is that this letter exists which gives them the blessings of 9/11 families. I want the names of the signatories and their relationships to 9/11 victims because I don't believe the document exists. If that's the case, then Kerry's staff needs to bring that fact to light.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20058.htm

9/11 KIN RUSH TO BUSH'S DEFENSE (Mr Doyle for Dems vs Mr Boyle for Bush)

By HEIDI SINGER

March 7, 2004 -- President Bush yesterday defended his use of Sept. 11 footage to get himself re-elected, and more than a dozen victims' families threw their support behind him. The president caused a firestorm of protest from victims' families on Thursday when his campaign began running commercials using images of the destroyed World Trade Center. <snip>

Meanwhile, the group of supporters, mostly firefighter families, released an "Open Letter to America" approving the ads."There is no better testament to the leadership of President Bush than Sept. 11," the letter states. "In choosing our next leader, we must not forget that day if we are to have a meaningful conversation. "The images in President Bush's campaign television ads are respectful of the memories of Sept. 11." Jimmy Boyle, former president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, spearheaded the letter, signed by 22 people who lost loved ones in the trade center attacks. Boyle, who said he will be voting for a Republican president for the first time in November, said he decided to ask other families to sign the letter after hearing that the president was being criticized for using Sept. 11 images in campaign ads. <snip>

"I don't think he's taking advantage of Sept. 11, and I feel that he's given us the leadership that we need," Boyle said. <snip>


"Families are enraged," said Bill Doyle, 57, whose son, Joseph, died in the attacks. "What I think is distasteful is that the president is trying to use 9/11 as a springboard for his re-election. It's entirely wrong. He's had 3,500 deaths on his watch, including Iraq."

Several family members said their annoyance stemmed in part from Bush's refusal to testify publicly before the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks."The Bush administration will not cooperate fully with the 9/11 commission, and at the same time, they are trying to invoke and own 9/11 and use it for his re-election," said Stephen Push, whose wife died on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. <snip>

...just a description of it.

I'm now even more convinced the letter doesn't exist.

memorial Library in Texas.

You must first file an FOIA form to get approval. Usual wait for viewing is at least 8 months, which would mean that you'd have to wait until November to even hope to see it.

....and they have no letter posted. Just the AP story about the letter. If there were such a letter available, they would have it up.