Amazingly, Howard Dean has actually said something so wacky that even John Kerry is trying to distance himself from it: Kerry Doesn’t Share Dean’s View on Spain.

WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday he does not share fellow Democrat Howard Dean’s position that President Bush’s decision to send troops to Iraq appears to have been a factor in the Spanish train bombing.

The chairman of Bush’s re-election campaign called on Kerry to repudiate the comment that Dean made during a conference call arranged by the Kerry campaign.

“The president was the one who dragged our troops to Iraq, which apparently has been a factor in the death of 200 Spaniards over the weekend,” Dean said as he defended Kerry from a Bush television ad that accused Kerry of turning his back on U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq.

Asked about the comment on his campaign plane Wednesday, Kerry said, “It’s not our position.”