He can then leap-frog all of the other Democratic contenders right into the center, and start duking it out with Bush on the details of the occupation. He could placate his anti-war supporters by continuing to carp on the US war effort. Any subsequent Dem who tried to move even an iota to the center would be accused, and rightly so, of me-tooing Howard Dean yet again.
Sure, it would cost Dean a little bit of his hard-core anti-war support. But most of these people would realize it is a facade (especially with a few winks from Dean in their direction), and would stick with the man most capable of beating the hated George W. Bush. The rest of the Dem field would be stupified, and the media would gush over Deans masterful handling of a difficult situation.
Think of it as Sista Soulja writ large.
If Howard Dean was smart and not a megalomaniac, this is what he would have done today...