MICKEY KAUS takes a sharp look at Howard Dean’s foreign policy positions, and also observes: “The better things are going in Iraq, the more air leaks out of Dean’s balloon.”

UPDATE: Reader Ali Karim Bey sends this rather critical account of a Howard Dean fundraiser from which the TV cameras were barred, while profanity and ethnic slurs flew.

Somebody smuggle in a miniature videocam, next time!