Hey Bobert and Alice. I've been off line for a while and couldn't respond to you way up the list until now.

Where I get that impression about Dean is from his own words to the American Israeli Political Action Committee, which I don't have access to at the moment. Basically, he stated that he sides with the hawks in the Israeli government with regard to Iran, rather than with the doves in the Israeli peace bloc. And he practically came right out and said he'd do whatever the government of Israel wanted him to do. That doesn't sound to me like a man who is intent on finding peaceful solutions to things, or like a man who is much of an independent thinker.