No, I'm not seriously advocating moving behind Senator Mike Gravel as the Dem candidate for 2008.

At the age of 77 he is past it and, moreover, he does hold rather weirdo economic theories.

Be that as it may, given the recent, shameful caving-in by Dems in Congress over a timetable for withdrawl from Iraq and their apparent unquestioning subservience to the lunacies of the War Prez, it might just make sense to give him some support, at least enough to enable his voice to be heard, so as to put the Dems in Congress to shame.

One Jeff Jacoby in today's Boston Globe - an admirer of Joe Lieberman.

http://www.boston.com/...

Sorry, don't have the time for an analysis but here are some salient statements.

Watching the MSNBC's Dem presidential-hopefuls'"debate" I was impressed by former Senator Mike Gravel's pointed remarks.
They reminded me of the stance taken by Senators Byrd and Kennedy at the time of the AUMF debate in 2003.
A stance that was not followed by the majority of the Dems then in Congress, including some of today's leading contenders for the 2008 Dem nomination, who ran behind our disingenuous (to put it mildly) War Prez yapping and braying and with an obscene, wildly enthusiastic wagging of fluffy tails.

Just appeared on fp of NYT:

An Iranian diplomat seized two months ago in Iraq has been released, Iran's official news agency reported Tuesday, citing informed sources in Tehran.

Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, will return to the Iranian capital later Tuesday, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The report gave no indication of why or how Sharafi had been freed.

Some small children are quite incorrigible and stubborn to boot. On the part of children this might even be quite cute, though trying on one's patience.

But when it comes to the President of the most powerful nation on the surface of the planet incorrigibility and stubborness are no longer cute, for they reach the level of the criminal.

On the front of todays NYT Bush is reported as saying:

Strange isn't it? But ever since the mid-term elections started, and especially since the announcement of the results, Iran seems to have dropped out of the solar system. Not a peep about Iran from anyone or anywhere... Yet wasn't Iran just a few days back the biggest threat to the world since Hussein's Iraq?