Pfc. Rob Jacobs of New Jersey was expecting words of comfort and support when he opened a package of letters from middle-school students in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

* Pfc. Rob Jacobs of New Jersey was expecting words of comfort and support when he opened a package of letters from middle-school students in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Instead, the soldier--stationed near North Korea--got a burst of sixth-grade vitriol, as the letter-writers criticized President Bush and the war in Iraq and predicted that few soldiers would return home alive. "I feel that you are being forced to kill innocent people," wrote one student. "Iraq never attacked us, if Bush cared so much about this country then we would be out there trying to find Osama bin Laden." Wrote another: "Bush calls this war the war on terrorism. What terrorism? Name one terrorist from Iraq ... I know I can't." New York City children are notoriously precocious--and left-wing--but they certainly didn't come to such ideas on their own. And while there's nothing wrong with parents' teaching their children a thing or two about politics, it's hardly encouraging to see such young students so indoctrinated in lefty views. They also seem to have been taught that politics comes before consideration and basic human compassion--things Pfc. Jacobs and his fellow soldiers would likely appreciate far more than their sermonizing.