Missive missed

How rude! Ahmadinejad wrote Bush a letter, but the man himself probably never even read it. From the BBC:

Mr McClellan would also not confirm whether Mr Bush had personally read the letter, saying only: "I would just leave it at what I said: We've received it."

But of course Bush didn't read it. After all:

...it was said to run to 17 or 18 pages of history, philosophy and religion.

So there are at least four reasons why Bush couldn't possibly be expected to get through the thing.

As far as I can tell, the major American news media aren't providing the text of the letter. We have to turn to the French for that. (In this single-spaced format, it only runs for 8 pages.) I'm not sure why the full contents of the letter aren't being made available here.