KERRY'S FOREIGN FOLLIES: STANDING BY JOE

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July 29, 2004 -- DEMOCRAT John Kerry's campaign yesterday gave a ringing endorsement to Bush-bashing Ambassador Joe Wilson — even though a bipartisan Senate committee just found so many holes in his story that even his own wife won't back it up.
Wilson claimed President Bush lied about whether Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger, and Wilson knew it because the CIA sent him there. The Senate report says, if anything, the truth is the opposite of what Wilson claimed.

But that doesn't seems to bother the Kerryites, who yesterday hailed Wilson's "integrity" and said he's still very much a part of the team that Kerry hopes will make him commander in chief. "Joe Wilson has served for many months as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign and continues to do so," said Kerry foreign policy adviser Susan Rice.

"As far as I know, we have no reason to believe that Mr. Wilson's words and deeds were not as he spoke them. I know Joe Wilson well . . . I have great respect for his integrity . . . I hold him in the highest esteem," Rice added.

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http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/18230.htm

Sorry about the editorial slant, but since the right has been abuzz with the claim that Kerry dumped Wilson, I thought this would put that to rest.

[trumad]

1. And Wilson spoke at the Convention yesterday....

doesn't look like a total dump to me?

[MasonJar]

2. Joe Wilson against Bushco...no challenge on the truth-out side.

There is an interview on Truth-out. Watch it. That Senate committee was not bi-partisan. Pat Roberts ruled the proceedings and the report. The criticism of Wilson was in an addendum added by two Pugs.