Dean, on "Meet the Press" in March 2003, said he believed that Iraq "is automatically an imminent threat to the countries that surround it because of the possession of these weapons." Yet, in his now familiar flip-flop style, candidate Dean later declared, "I never said Saddam was a danger to the United States."

--right-wing columnist and talk-radio host Larry Elder, 1/22/04 column

Maybe that's the difference between conservatives and the rest of us: They think the U.S. is in the Middle East.