"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 adviser, 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 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 adviser to his campaign.

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