"For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President
Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House.
It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential
letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or
sometimes left the news media in the dark.

"Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in
Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift
the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country. "

For example, Bush has written over four thousand personal letters of
condolence to the families of fallen soldiers.

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