Protester throws shoe at Richard Perle

Mr. Dean obviously has lots of fire, he's very useful (for now), but has no clue. He's beginning to take on the hue and flavor of a stormtrooper. Egads. The majority of older Teens and Twenties will "rah-rah" talk like this, but in the voting booth, they'll vote for the rational adult, ipso, Hillary or whomever. Unfortunately for the plan, America's enemies are listening to this too. Methinks, events are going to playout as unintended consequences for the Democrat Party.

"Defense is a lot broader than swaggering around saying you're going to kick Saddam's butt," Dean said Thursday, drawing cheers from the crowd in this city that overwhelmingly voted Democratic last November.

Dean also said the Bush administration has ignored the mounting threat in Iran and North Korea. "We picked the low hanging fruit in Iraq and did nothing" about the other, more dangerous regimes, he said