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Remember the valuable lesson the 1960s movie "Love Story" taught us? Sure: "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Oh! We long for those days of innocence, yes? Particularly in light of our current political environment. Sorry had better be in your vocabulary today, if you want a little love from the antiwar left.

For example, Democratic candidate for president John Edwards apologized last week for voting to go into Iraq. Edwards came to this decision, no doubt, after having a vision of the big money Barack Obama's raising from the antiwar left - the controlling interest of the Democratic Party today. An apology was in order.

He's far from alone among the 400 or so Democratic candidates for the White House. All right, there really aren't 400 candidates. However, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut - both alleged Democratic presidential hopefuls - have also begged for forgiveness.

Sorry is apparently spelled $orry.

However, the only senator the left truly wants an apology from is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. She's pranced around a bit, trying to reshuffle her position on the war and how we should proceed.

But so far - much to her credit - she hasn't uttered the "s" word. Of course, it's early. But Clinton, a New York Democrat, knows well there remains a big chunk of people who may not like the war, but they're not ready to lose it, either.

And there also remain a number of people who can still put two and two together and compute that President George W. Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

As Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton did before him, President Bush believed the weapons were there. He didn't lie. Hillary Clinton understands that, understands that she'll need more than the rabid left of her party to put her into the Oval Office and, as such, she's not knelt down to repent. Yet.

While it's easy to discount the words "love means never having to say you're sorry," it's worth applying those words to the present stance of Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.

Having weathered the worst the far left could do to him - defeat him in a primary - Lieberman is clearly warming to the love Republicans continue to shower on him.

Lieberman's recent Wall Street Journal op-ed all but dared Democrats to cut funding to our troops. He called on his colleagues to slow down, "step back and think carefully about what to do next."

"We must remember," Lieberman wrote, "that our forces in Iraq carry America's cause - the cause of freedom - which we abandon at our peril."

No one doubts for a moment that were Lieberman to switch from an independent to a Republican he'd receive plenty of love. And Sen. Clinton remains her party's front-runner, despite her lack of Iraq vote remorse.

Who knows? Maybe love really does mean never having to say you're sorry.