In any event, it's clear from listening to Mr. Dean that he's enjoying the squirming of the pro-war Democratic candidates, and the opportunity their stance gives him to counter the charge that a former governor of a tiny state such as Vermont doesn't know enough about foreign policy to be president.

"If I can figure out the case the president was making wasn't accurate, and wasn't a good one, and these guys, these campaigns, are all spinning that I don't have foreign policy experience," he says, "then how come my team could figure it out and the other teams couldn't?"