Kerry Still Citing Joe Wilson's Bogus Claims

The Kerry campaign is still citing bogus accusations against President Bush by former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, even though the Bush accuser has been thoroughly discredited by the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq's WMDs and Britain's Butler report.

As late as Friday afternoon, Kerry's campaign web site featured a letter from Amb. Wilson excoriating President Bush for "misleading" America about Iraq's attempts to buy uranium in Africa.

"I wasn't ready to keep quiet when this President misled the nation in his State of the Union Address," rails Wilson. "To speak out against bad policies after a career of accomplishments, as I recently did, is a civic duty," he added, before charging:

"George Bush's Administration has betrayed our trust - I know that personally."

Wilson, who serves as a key Kerry-Edwards foreign policy advisor, has the same letter posted to his personal web site, which is addressed ironically "www.restorehonesty.com."

In a report posted just two days ago, the Kerry-Edwards campaign web site also features a reference to the Bush administration's "debunked the Niger/yellowcake claim."

Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee indicated that claims Bush had lied about the uranium intelligence were unfounded.

"It was reasonable for analysts to assess that Iraq may have been seeking uranium from Africa based on CIA reporting and other available intelligence," the Committee found.

What's more, it turns out that Wilson's conclusions about the Niger uranium had been pretty much dismissed by U.S. intelligence from the start.

"The report on the former ambassador's trip to Niger, disseminated in March 2002, did not change analysts' assessments on the Iraq-Niger uranium deal," the Committee revealed.

Sen. Kerry has yet to say whether the discredited diplomat will continue to serve as a key advisor to his campaign.

...therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others; yes, even when enlightened on the subject, they will long doubt and waver, and continue to accept at least one of these causes as true. Therefore, something of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick - a fact which all the great lie-virtuosi and lying-clubs in this world know only too well and also make the most treacherous use of.