But the majority of letters Kunhardt's kids produced sounded like they were written by Michael Moore.

One girl told Jacobs that he is "being forced to kill innocent people" and challenged him to name an Iraqi terrorist.

"I know I can't," she insisted.

Another girl explained, "I strongly feel this war is pointless."

A third letter predicted that because President Bush had been re-elected, "only 50 or 100 [soldiers] will survive."

A fourth accused soldiers of "destroying holy places like mosques."

"I want to think these letters were coached by the teacher or the parents of these children," Jacobs told the Post in an interview from Camp Casey in Korea, where he awaits deployment to Iraq. "It boggles my mind that children could think this stuff."

So far there's no word of any planned apology from teacher Kunhardt, who oversaw the letter-writing project.

But New York City Deputy Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, who has a nephew serving in Iraq, plans to personally contact Pfc. Rob Jacobs and his family, department spokeswoman Michele McManus Higgins told the Post.

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