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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040604210986_ENG_20040604_210986-0041	The anger has spread throughout the Muslim world, including Iraq.	[ "The", "anger", "has", "spread", "throughout", "the", "Muslim", "world", ",", "including", "Iraq", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040604210986_ENG_20040604_210986-0042	The promotion by the pro-Zionist right of twin occupations - in the West Bank and in Iraq - has profoundly weakened, not strengthened, Israeli security.	[ "The", "promotion", "by", "the", "pro-Zionist", "right", "of", "twin", "occupations", "-", "in", "the", "West", "Bank", "and", "in", "Iraq", "-", "has", "profoundly", "weakened", ",", "not", "strengthened", ",", "Israeli", "security", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 6, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040604210986_ENG_20040604_210986-0043	Juan Cole (www.juancole.com) is a professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Michigan and author of "Sacred Space and Holy War" (I.B. Tauris, 2002).	[ "Juan", "Cole", "(", "www.juancole.com", ")", "is", "a", "professor", "of", "modern", "Middle", "East", "history", "at", "the", "University", "of", "Michigan", "and", "author", "of", "\"", "Sacred", "Space", "and", "Holy", "War", "\"", "(", "I.B.", "Tauris", ",", "2002", ")", "." ]	[ 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 6, 0, 0, 0, 5, 6, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040604210986_ENG_20040604_210986-0044	THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary in agreement with Agence Global	[ "THE", "DAILY", "STAR", "publishes", "this", "commentary", "in", "agreement", "with", "Agence", "Global" ]	[ 3, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0001	George W. Bush alleged Thursday that John Edwards lacks the experience necessary to be president.	[ "George", "W.", "Bush", "alleged", "Thursday", "that", "John", "Edwards", "lacks", "the", "experience", "necessary", "to", "be", "president", "." ]	[ 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0002	The problem with this argument is that Bush lacked the experience necessary to be president when he ran in 2000, so this sort of cheap shot just hoists him by his own petard.	[ "The", "problem", "with", "this", "argument", "is", "that", "Bush", "lacked", "the", "experience", "necessary", "to", "be", "president", "when", "he", "ran", "in", "2000", ",", "so", "this", "sort", "of", "cheap", "shot", "just", "hoists", "him", "by", "his", "own", "petard", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0003	Let 's just remember a seminal Bush moment in 1999:	[ "Let", "'s", "just", "remember", "a", "seminal", "Bush", "moment", "in", "1999", ":" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0004	' Bush fails reporter 's pop quiz on international leaders	[ "'", "Bush", "fails", "reporter", "'s", "pop", "quiz", "on", "international", "leaders" ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0005	November 5, 1999	[ "November", "5", ",", "1999" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0006	Web posted at: 3:29 p.m. EST (2029 GMT)	[ "Web", "posted", "at", ":", "3:29", "p.m.", "EST", "(", "2029", "GMT", ")" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0008	Texas Gov. George W. Bush is enduring sharp criticism for being unable to name the leaders of four current world hot spots, but President Bill Clinton says Bush "should, and probably will, pick up" those names.	[ "Texas", "Gov.", "George", "W.", "Bush", "is", "enduring", "sharp", "criticism", "for", "being", "unable", "to", "name", "the", "leaders", "of", "four", "current", "world", "hot", "spots", ",", "but", "President", "Bill", "Clinton", "says", "Bush", "\"", "should", ",", "and", "probably", "will", ",", "pick", "up", "\"", "those", "names", "." ]	[ 5, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0009	The front-runner for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination faltered Thursday in an international affairs pop quiz posed by Andy Hiller, a political reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston.	[ "The", "front", "-", "runner", "for", "the", "2000", "Republican", "presidential", "nomination", "faltered", "Thursday", "in", "an", "international", "affairs", "pop", "quiz", "posed", "by", "Andy", "Hiller", ",", "a", "political", "reporter", "for", "WHDH", "-", "TV", "in", "Boston", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 4, 4, 0, 5, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0010	Bush	[ "Bush" ]	[ 1 ]	[ "stephen" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0011	Hiller asked Bush to name the leaders of Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan.	[ "Hiller", "asked", "Bush", "to", "name", "the", "leaders", "of", "Chechnya", ",", "Taiwan", ",", "India", "and", "Pakistan", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 5, 0, 5, 0, 5, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0012	Bush was only able to give a partial response to the query on the leader of Taiwan, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui simply as "Lee."	[ "Bush", "was", "only", "able", "to", "give", "a", "partial", "response", "to", "the", "query", "on", "the", "leader", "of", "Taiwan", ",", "referring", "to", "Taiwanese", "President", "Lee", "Teng", "-", "hui", "simply", "as", "\"", "Lee", ".", "\"" ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0013	He could not name the others.	[ "He", "could", "not", "name", "the", "others", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0014	"Can you name the general who is in charge of Pakistan?"	[ "\"", "Can", "you", "name", "the", "general", "who", "is", "in", "charge", "of", "Pakistan", "?", "\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0015	Hiller asked, inquiring about Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf, who seized control of the country October 12.	[ "Hiller", "asked", ",", "inquiring", "about", "Gen.", "Pervaiz", "Musharraf", ",", "who", "seized", "control", "of", "the", "country", "October", "12", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0016	"Wait, wait, is this 50 questions?" asked Bush.	[ "\"", "Wait", ",", "wait", ",", "is", "this", "50", "questions", "?", "\"", "asked", "Bush", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0017	Hiller replied: "No, it 's four questions of four leaders in four hot spots." . . .	[ "Hiller", "replied", ":", "\"", "No", ",", "it", "'s", "four", "questions", "of", "four", "leaders", "in", "four", "hot", "spots", ".", "\"", ".", ".", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0018	Bush, in answering the question about the leader of Pakistan, also said: "The new Pakistani general, he 's just been elected -- not elected, this guy took over office.	[ "Bush", ",", "in", "answering", "the", "question", "about", "the", "leader", "of", "Pakistan", ",", "also", "said", ":", "\"", "The", "new", "Pakistani", "general", ",", "he", "'s", "just", "been", "elected", "--", "not", "elected", ",", "this", "guy", "took", "over", "office", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0019	It appears this guy is going to bring stability to the country and I think that 's good news for the subcontinent."	[ "It", "appears", "this", "guy", "is", "going", "to", "bring", "stability", "to", "the", "country", "and", "I", "think", "that", "'s", "good", "news", "for", "the", "subcontinent", ".", "\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0020	Gore released a statement Friday taking Bush to task for his comments on Pakistan 's recent coup.	[ "Gore", "released", "a", "statement", "Friday", "taking", "Bush", "to", "task", "for", "his", "comments", "on", "Pakistan", "'s", "recent", "coup", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0021	"I find it troubling that a candidate for president in our country -- the world 's oldest democracy -- would characterize the military takeover as "good news," Gore said.	[ "\"", "I", "find", "it", "troubling", "that", "a", "candidate", "for", "president", "in", "our", "country", "--", "the", "world", "'s", "oldest", "democracy", "--", "would", "characterize", "the", "military", "takeover", "as", "\"", "good", "news", ",", "\"", "Gore", "said", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0022	"Further, I find it even more disturbing that he made these comments about a nation that just last year tested nuclear weapons -- shortly after voicing his public opposition to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.	[ "\"", "Further", ",", "I", "find", "it", "even", "more", "disturbing", "that", "he", "made", "these", "comments", "about", "a", "nation", "that", "just", "last", "year", "tested", "nuclear", "weapons", "--", "shortly", "after", "voicing", "his", "public", "opposition", "to", "the", "Comprehensive", "Test", "Ban", "Treaty", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0023	A spokesman for President Clinton also criticized Bush 's comments.	[ "A", "spokesman", "for", "President", "Clinton", "also", "criticized", "Bush", "'s", "comments", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0024	"It is very dangerous for this country to condone the overthrow of democratically elected governments," said David Leavy, spokesman for the National Security Council.	[ "\"", "It", "is", "very", "dangerous", "for", "this", "country", "to", "condone", "the", "overthrow", "of", "democratically", "elected", "governments", ",", "\"", "said", "David", "Leavy", ",", "spokesman", "for", "the", "National", "Security", "Council", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 4, 4, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0025	Not only did Bush not know who General Pervez Musharraf was, he seems to have confused coup-making with "taking office," and moreover went on to suggest that the overthrow of an elected prime minister and the installation in power of the Pakistan military, then the world 's strongest supporter of the Taliban, would bring "stability!"	[ "Not", "only", "did", "Bush", "not", "know", "who", "General", "Pervez", "Musharraf", "was", ",", "he", "seems", "to", "have", "confused", "coup", "-", "making", "with", "\"", "taking", "office", ",", "\"", "and", "moreover", "went", "on", "to", "suggest", "that", "the", "overthrow", "of", "an", "elected", "prime", "minister", "and", "the", "installation", "in", "power", "of", "the", "Pakistan", "military", ",", "then", "the", "world", "'s", "strongest", "supporter", "of", "the", "Taliban", ",", "would", "bring", "\"", "stability", "!", "\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0026	Musharraf made his coup in part because of the military 's anger over Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 's willingness to back down from confronting India over Kashmir, so that he explicitly came to power as a warmonger.	[ "Musharraf", "made", "his", "coup", "in", "part", "because", "of", "the", "military", "'s", "anger", "over", "Prime", "Minister", "Nawaz", "Sharif", "'s", "willingness", "to", "back", "down", "from", "confronting", "India", "over", "Kashmir", ",", "so", "that", "he", "explicitly", "came", "to", "power", "as", "a", "warmonger", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0027	I ca n't tell you how ominous I found Bush 's performance in that interview.	[ "I", "ca", "n't", "tell", "you", "how", "ominous", "I", "found", "Bush", "'s", "performance", "in", "that", "interview", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0028	I still remember him stuttering about "the General," unable to remember Musharraf 's name.	[ "I", "still", "remember", "him", "stuttering", "about", "\"", "the", "General", ",", "\"", "unable", "to", "remember", "Musharraf", "'s", "name", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0029	He obviously had no idea what he was talking about, though he demonstrated a number of ill-fated instincts.	[ "He", "obviously", "had", "no", "idea", "what", "he", "was", "talking", "about", ",", "though", "he", "demonstrated", "a", "number", "of", "ill", "-", "fated", "instincts", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0030	He obviously liked authoritarian rule better than democracy, equating dictatorship with "stability."	[ "He", "obviously", "liked", "authoritarian", "rule", "better", "than", "democracy", ",", "equating", "dictatorship", "with", "\"", "stability", ".", "\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0031	And, he did n't think he needed to know anything about South Asia, with its nuclear giants and radical religious politics--the latter a dire security threat to the US.	[ "And", ",", "he", "did", "n't", "think", "he", "needed", "to", "know", "anything", "about", "South", "Asia", ",", "with", "its", "nuclear", "giants", "and", "radical", "religious", "politics", "--", "the", "latter", "a", "dire", "security", "threat", "to", "the", "US", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0032	He could n't tell when things were becoming more unstable as opposed to less.	[ "He", "could", "n't", "tell", "when", "things", "were", "becoming", "more", "unstable", "as", "opposed", "to", "less", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0033	Musharraf went on to play nuclear brinkmanship with India in 2002, risking war twice that year.	[ "Musharraf", "went", "on", "to", "play", "nuclear", "brinkmanship", "with", "India", "in", "2002", ",", "risking", "war", "twice", "that", "year", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0034	Although Musharraf did turn against the Taliban after September 11, under extreme duress from the US, elements of his military continued to support radical Islamism and have recently been implicated in assassination attempts on Musharraf himself.	[ "Although", "Musharraf", "did", "turn", "against", "the", "Taliban", "after", "September", "11", ",", "under", "extreme", "duress", "from", "the", "US", ",", "elements", "of", "his", "military", "continued", "to", "support", "radical", "Islamism", "and", "have", "recently", "been", "implicated", "in", "assassination", "attempts", "on", "Musharraf", "himself", "." ]	[ 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0035	This was the body that Bush proclaimed was bringing "stability" to the region in fall of 1999.	[ "This", "was", "the", "body", "that", "Bush", "proclaimed", "was", "bringing", "\"", "stability", "\"", "to", "the", "region", "in", "fall", "of", "1999", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0036	So, one answer to Bush 's charge about Edwards is that if it had any merit, Bush should have declined to run himself.	[ "So", ",", "one", "answer", "to", "Bush", "'s", "charge", "about", "Edwards", "is", "that", "if", "it", "had", "any", "merit", ",", "Bush", "should", "have", "declined", "to", "run", "himself", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0037	Another answer is that Edwards certainly knows far more about foreign affairs now than Bush did then.	[ "Another", "answer", "is", "that", "Edwards", "certainly", "knows", "far", "more", "about", "foreign", "affairs", "now", "than", "Bush", "did", "then", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0038	Indeed, given how Bush has rampaged around the world alienating allies and ignoring vital conflicts with the potential to blow back on the US, one might well argue that Edwards knows more now than Bush does.	[ "Indeed", ",", "given", "how", "Bush", "has", "rampaged", "around", "the", "world", "alienating", "allies", "and", "ignoring", "vital", "conflicts", "with", "the", "potential", "to", "blow", "back", "on", "the", "US", ",", "one", "might", "well", "argue", "that", "Edwards", "knows", "more", "now", "than", "Bush", "does", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0039	This is what Edwards ' campaign literature said about his positions: "Edwards believes that the U.S. must be an active leader to help resolve conflicts, from reducing tensions between India and Pakistan to the peace process in Northern Ireland.	[ "This", "is", "what", "Edwards", "'", "campaign", "literature", "said", "about", "his", "positions", ":", "\"", "Edwards", "believes", "that", "the", "U.S.", "must", "be", "an", "active", "leader", "to", "help", "resolve", "conflicts", ",", "from", "reducing", "tensions", "between", "India", "and", "Pakistan", "to", "the", "peace", "process", "in", "Northern", "Ireland", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0040	Edwards is a strong supporter of Israel, and believes that the U.S. has a vital role in promoting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians."	[ "Edwards", "is", "a", "strong", "supporter", "of", "Israel", ",", "and", "believes", "that", "the", "U.S.", "has", "a", "vital", "role", "in", "promoting", "peace", "between", "the", "Israelis", "and", "the", "Palestinians", ".", "\"" ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040708181175_ENG_20040708_181175-0041	I do n't see Bush doing any of this.	[ "I", "do", "n't", "see", "Bush", "doing", "any", "of", "this", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0001	The debate that a handful of Texas multi-millionnaires close to the Bush family have cleverly manufactured over John Kerry 's war record is absurd in every way.	[ "The", "debate", "that", "a", "handful", "of", "Texas", "multi-millionnaires", "close", "to", "the", "Bush", "family", "have", "cleverly", "manufactured", "over", "John", "Kerry", "'s", "war", "record", "is", "absurd", "in", "every", "way", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0002	The charges that they have put some vets up to making against Kerry are false and can be demonstrated by the historical record to be false .	[ "The", "charges", "that", "they", "have", "put", "some", "vets", "up", "to", "making", "against", "Kerry", "are", "false", "and", "can", "be", "demonstrated", "by", "the", "historical", "record", "to", "be", "false", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0003	Most of those making the charges have even flip-flopped, contradicting themselves.	[ "Most", "of", "those", "making", "the", "charges", "have", "even", "flip", "-", "flopped", ",", "contradicting", "themselves", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0004	Or they were n't eyewitnesses and are just lying.	[ "Or", "they", "were", "n't", "eyewitnesses", "and", "are", "just", "lying", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0005	But to address the substance of this Big Lie is to risk falling into its logic.	[ "But", "to", "address", "the", "substance", "of", "this", "Big", "Lie", "is", "to", "risk", "falling", "into", "its", "logic", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0006	The true absurdity of the entire situation is easily appreciated when we consider that George W. Bush never showed any bravery at all at any point in his life.	[ "The", "true", "absurdity", "of", "the", "entire", "situation", "is", "easily", "appreciated", "when", "we", "consider", "that", "George", "W.", "Bush", "never", "showed", "any", "bravery", "at", "all", "at", "any", "point", "in", "his", "life", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0007	He has never lived in a war zone.	[ "He", "has", "never", "lived", "in", "a", "war", "zone", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0008	If some of John Kerry 's wounds were superficial, Bush received no wounds.	[ "If", "some", "of", "John", "Kerry", "'s", "wounds", "were", "superficial", ",", "Bush", "received", "no", "wounds", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0009	(And, a piece of shrapnel in the forearm that caused only a minor wound would have killed had it hit an eye and gone into the brain; the shrapnel being in your body demonstrates you were in mortal danger and did n't absent yourself from it.	[ "(", "And", ",", "a", "piece", "of", "shrapnel", "in", "the", "forearm", "that", "caused", "only", "a", "minor", "wound", "would", "have", "killed", "had", "it", "hit", "an", "eye", "and", "gone", "into", "the", "brain", ";", "the", "shrapnel", "being", "in", "your", "body", "demonstrates", "you", "were", "in", "mortal", "danger", "and", "did", "n't", "absent", "yourself", "from", "it", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0010	That is the logic of the medal).	[ "That", "is", "the", "logic", "of", "the", "medal", ")", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0011	Kerry saved a man 's life while under fire.	[ "Kerry", "saved", "a", "man", "'s", "life", "while", "under", "fire", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0012	Bush did no such thing.	[ "Bush", "did", "no", "such", "thing", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0013	What was Bush doing with his youth?	[ "What", "was", "Bush", "doing", "with", "his", "youth", "?" ]	[ 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0014	He was drinking.	[ "He", "was", "drinking", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0015	He was drinking like a fish, every night, into the wee hours.	[ "He", "was", "drinking", "like", "a", "fish", ",", "every", "night", ",", "into", "the", "wee", "hours", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0016	For decades.	[ "For", "decades", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0017	He gave no service to anyone, risked nothing, and did not even slack off efficiently.	[ "He", "gave", "no", "service", "to", "anyone", ",", "risked", "nothing", ",", "and", "did", "not", "even", "slack", "off", "efficiently", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0018	The history of alcoholism and possibly other drug use is a key issue because it not only speaks to Bush 's character as an addictive personality, but may tell us something about his erratic and alarming actions as president.	[ "The", "history", "of", "alcoholism", "and", "possibly", "other", "drug", "use", "is", "a", "key", "issue", "because", "it", "not", "only", "speaks", "to", "Bush", "'s", "character", "as", "an", "addictive", "personality", ",", "but", "may", "tell", "us", "something", "about", "his", "erratic", "and", "alarming", "actions", "as", "president", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0019	His explosive temper probably provoked the disastrous siege of Fallujah last spring, killing 600 Iraqis, most of them women and children, in revenge for the deaths of 4 civilian mercenaries, one of them a South African.	[ "His", "explosive", "temper", "probably", "provoked", "the", "disastrous", "siege", "of", "Fallujah", "last", "spring", ",", "killing", "600", "Iraqis", ",", "most", "of", "them", "women", "and", "children", ",", "in", "revenge", "for", "the", "deaths", "of", "4", "civilian", "mercenaries", ",", "one", "of", "them", "a", "South", "African", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0020	(Newsweek reported that Bush commanded his cabinet, "Let heads roll!")	[ "(", "Newsweek", "reported", "that", "Bush", "commanded", "his", "cabinet", ",", "\"", "Let", "heads", "roll", "!", "\"", ")" ]	[ 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0021	That temper is only one problem.	[ "That", "temper", "is", "only", "one", "problem", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0022	Bush has a sadistic streak.	[ "Bush", "has", "a", "sadistic", "streak", "." ]	[ 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0023	He clearly enjoyed, as governor, watching executions.	[ "He", "clearly", "enjoyed", ",", "as", "governor", ",", "watching", "executions", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0024	His delight in killing people became a campaign issue in 2000 when he seemed, in one debate, to enjoy the prospect of executing wrong-doers a little too much.	[ "His", "delight", "in", "killing", "people", "became", "a", "campaign", "issue", "in", "2000", "when", "he", "seemed", ",", "in", "one", "debate", ",", "to", "enjoy", "the", "prospect", "of", "executing", "wrong", "-", "doers", "a", "little", "too", "much", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0025	He has clearly gone on enjoying killing people on a large scale in Iraq.	[ "He", "has", "clearly", "gone", "on", "enjoying", "killing", "people", "on", "a", "large", "scale", "in", "Iraq", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0026	Drug abuse can affect the ability of the person to feel deep emotions like empathy.	[ "Drug", "abuse", "can", "affect", "the", "ability", "of", "the", "person", "to", "feel", "deep", "emotions", "like", "empathy", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0027	Two decades of pickling his nervous system in various highly toxic substances have left Bush damaged goods.	[ "Two", "decades", "of", "pickling", "his", "nervous", "system", "in", "various", "highly", "toxic", "substances", "have", "left", "Bush", "damaged", "goods", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0028	Even for those who later abstain, "visual-spatial abilities, abstraction, problem solving , and short-term memory, are the slowest to recover."	[ "Even", "for", "those", "who", "later", "abstain", ",", "\"", "visual", "-", "spatial", "abilities", ",", "abstraction", ",", "problem", "solving", ",", "and", "short", "-", "term", "memory", ",", "are", "the", "slowest", "to", "recover", ".", "\"" ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0031	We all know by now that Bush did not even do his full service with the Texas Air National Guard, absenting himself to work on the Alabama senate campaign of Winton "Red" Blount.	[ "We", "all", "know", "by", "now", "that", "Bush", "did", "not", "even", "do", "his", "full", "service", "with", "the", "Texas", "Air", "National", "Guard", ",", "absenting", "himself", "to", "work", "on", "the", "Alabama", "senate", "campaign", "of", "Winton", "\"", "Red", "\"", "Blount", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 4, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-" ]
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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0037	For weeks, reporters scoured Alabama in search of pilots or anyone who might have remembered seeing Mr. Bush at the time he was serving in the National Guard there.	[ "For", "weeks", ",", "reporters", "scoured", "Alabama", "in", "search", "of", "pilots", "or", "anyone", "who", "might", "have", "remembered", "seeing", "Mr.", "Bush", "at", "the", "time", "he", "was", "serving", "in", "the", "National", "Guard", "there", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 4, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "-" ]
weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0038	There is one place in Alabama where Mr. Bush was present nearly every day: the headquarters in Montgomery of US Senate candidate Winton "Red" Blount.	[ "There", "is", "one", "place", "in", "Alabama", "where", "Mr.", "Bush", "was", "present", "nearly", "every", "day", ":", "the", "headquarters", "in", "Montgomery", "of", "US", "Senate", "candidate", "Winton", "\"", "Red", "\"", "Blount", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "-", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "stephen", "-" ]
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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040823064025_ENG_20040823_064025-0048	On the phone, you could hear his accent.	[ "On", "the", "phone", ",", "you", "could", "hear", "his", "accent", "." ]	[ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]	[ "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-", "-" ]
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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040604210986_ENG_20040604_210986-0041

The anger has spread throughout the Muslim world, including Iraq.

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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040604210986_ENG_20040604_210986-0042

The promotion by the pro-Zionist right of twin occupations - in the West Bank and in Iraq - has profoundly weakened, not strengthened, Israeli security.

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weblog-juancole.com_juancole_20040604210986_ENG_20040604_210986-0043

Juan Cole (www.juancole.com) is a professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Michigan and author of "Sacred Space and Holy War" (I.B. Tauris, 2002).

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THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary in agreement with Agence Global

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George W. Bush alleged Thursday that John Edwards lacks the experience necessary to be president.

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The problem with this argument is that Bush lacked the experience necessary to be president when he ran in 2000, so this sort of cheap shot just hoists him by his own petard.

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Let 's just remember a seminal Bush moment in 1999:

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' Bush fails reporter 's pop quiz on international leaders

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November 5, 1999

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Web posted at: 3:29 p.m. EST (2029 GMT)

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WASHINGTON (CNN) --

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Texas Gov. George W. Bush is enduring sharp criticism for being unable to name the leaders of four current world hot spots, but President Bill Clinton says Bush "should, and probably will, pick up" those names.

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The front-runner for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination faltered Thursday in an international affairs pop quiz posed by Andy Hiller, a political reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston.

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Hiller asked Bush to name the leaders of Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan.

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Bush was only able to give a partial response to the query on the leader of Taiwan, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui simply as "Lee."

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He could not name the others.

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"Can you name the general who is in charge of Pakistan?"

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Hiller asked, inquiring about Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf, who seized control of the country October 12.

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"Wait, wait, is this 50 questions?" asked Bush.

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Hiller replied: "No, it 's four questions of four leaders in four hot spots." . . .

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Bush, in answering the question about the leader of Pakistan, also said: "The new Pakistani general, he 's just been elected -- not elected, this guy took over office.

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It appears this guy is going to bring stability to the country and I think that 's good news for the subcontinent."

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Gore released a statement Friday taking Bush to task for his comments on Pakistan 's recent coup.

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"I find it troubling that a candidate for president in our country -- the world 's oldest democracy -- would characterize the military takeover as "good news," Gore said.

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"Further, I find it even more disturbing that he made these comments about a nation that just last year tested nuclear weapons -- shortly after voicing his public opposition to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

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A spokesman for President Clinton also criticized Bush 's comments.

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"It is very dangerous for this country to condone the overthrow of democratically elected governments," said David Leavy, spokesman for the National Security Council.

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Not only did Bush not know who General Pervez Musharraf was, he seems to have confused coup-making with "taking office," and moreover went on to suggest that the overthrow of an elected prime minister and the installation in power of the Pakistan military, then the world 's strongest supporter of the Taliban, would bring "stability!"

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Musharraf made his coup in part because of the military 's anger over Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 's willingness to back down from confronting India over Kashmir, so that he explicitly came to power as a warmonger.

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I ca n't tell you how ominous I found Bush 's performance in that interview.

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I still remember him stuttering about "the General," unable to remember Musharraf 's name.

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He obviously had no idea what he was talking about, though he demonstrated a number of ill-fated instincts.

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He obviously liked authoritarian rule better than democracy, equating dictatorship with "stability."

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And, he did n't think he needed to know anything about South Asia, with its nuclear giants and radical religious politics--the latter a dire security threat to the US.

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He could n't tell when things were becoming more unstable as opposed to less.

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Musharraf went on to play nuclear brinkmanship with India in 2002, risking war twice that year.

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Although Musharraf did turn against the Taliban after September 11, under extreme duress from the US, elements of his military continued to support radical Islamism and have recently been implicated in assassination attempts on Musharraf himself.

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This was the body that Bush proclaimed was bringing "stability" to the region in fall of 1999.

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So, one answer to Bush 's charge about Edwards is that if it had any merit, Bush should have declined to run himself.

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Another answer is that Edwards certainly knows far more about foreign affairs now than Bush did then.

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Indeed, given how Bush has rampaged around the world alienating allies and ignoring vital conflicts with the potential to blow back on the US, one might well argue that Edwards knows more now than Bush does.

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This is what Edwards ' campaign literature said about his positions: "Edwards believes that the U.S. must be an active leader to help resolve conflicts, from reducing tensions between India and Pakistan to the peace process in Northern Ireland.

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Edwards is a strong supporter of Israel, and believes that the U.S. has a vital role in promoting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians."

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I do n't see Bush doing any of this.

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The debate that a handful of Texas multi-millionnaires close to the Bush family have cleverly manufactured over John Kerry 's war record is absurd in every way.

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The charges that they have put some vets up to making against Kerry are false and can be demonstrated by the historical record to be false .

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Most of those making the charges have even flip-flopped, contradicting themselves.

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Or they were n't eyewitnesses and are just lying.

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But to address the substance of this Big Lie is to risk falling into its logic.

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The true absurdity of the entire situation is easily appreciated when we consider that George W. Bush never showed any bravery at all at any point in his life.

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He has never lived in a war zone.

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If some of John Kerry 's wounds were superficial, Bush received no wounds.

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(And, a piece of shrapnel in the forearm that caused only a minor wound would have killed had it hit an eye and gone into the brain; the shrapnel being in your body demonstrates you were in mortal danger and did n't absent yourself from it.

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That is the logic of the medal).

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Kerry saved a man 's life while under fire.

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Bush did no such thing.

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What was Bush doing with his youth?

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He was drinking.

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He was drinking like a fish, every night, into the wee hours.

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For decades.

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He gave no service to anyone, risked nothing, and did not even slack off efficiently.

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The history of alcoholism and possibly other drug use is a key issue because it not only speaks to Bush 's character as an addictive personality, but may tell us something about his erratic and alarming actions as president.

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His explosive temper probably provoked the disastrous siege of Fallujah last spring, killing 600 Iraqis, most of them women and children, in revenge for the deaths of 4 civilian mercenaries, one of them a South African.

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(Newsweek reported that Bush commanded his cabinet, "Let heads roll!")

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That temper is only one problem.

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Bush has a sadistic streak.

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He clearly enjoyed, as governor, watching executions.

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His delight in killing people became a campaign issue in 2000 when he seemed, in one debate, to enjoy the prospect of executing wrong-doers a little too much.

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He has clearly gone on enjoying killing people on a large scale in Iraq.

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Drug abuse can affect the ability of the person to feel deep emotions like empathy.

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Two decades of pickling his nervous system in various highly toxic substances have left Bush damaged goods.

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Even for those who later abstain, "visual-spatial abilities, abstraction, problem solving , and short-term memory, are the slowest to recover."

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That he managed to get on the wagon (though with that pretzel incident, you wonder how firmly) is laudable.

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But he suffers the severe effects of the aftermath, and we are all suffering along with him now, since he is the most powerful man in the world.

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We all know by now that Bush did not even do his full service with the Texas Air National Guard, absenting himself to work on the Alabama senate campaign of Winton "Red" Blount.

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Whether he was actually AWOL during this stint is unclear.

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But it is clear that not only did Bush slack off on his National Guard service, but he slacked off from his campaign work.

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This little-noted interview with Blount 's nephew Murph Archibald, which appeared on National Public Radio 's "All Things Considered on March 30, 2004, gives a devastating insight into what it was like to have to suffer through Bush in that period.

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"All Things Considered (8:00 PM ET) - NPR March 30, 2004 Tuesday

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This campaign season, there have been questions about whether George W. Bush fulfilled his obligations to the National Guard as a young lieutenant in the early 1970s.

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For weeks, reporters scoured Alabama in search of pilots or anyone who might have remembered seeing Mr. Bush at the time he was serving in the National Guard there.

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There is one place in Alabama where Mr. Bush was present nearly every day: the headquarters in Montgomery of US Senate candidate Winton "Red" Blount.

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President Bush has always said that working for Blount was the reason he transferred to the Alabama Air National Guard.

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NPR 's Wade Goodwyn has this report about Mr. Bush 's time on that campaign.

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WADE GOODWYN reporting:

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In 1972, Baba Groom was a smart, funny young woman smack-dab in the middle of an exciting US Senate campaign.

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Groom was Republican Red Blount 's scheduler, and in that job, she was the hub in the campaign wheel.

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Ask her about the handsome young man from Texas, and she remembers him 32 years later like it was yesterday.

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Ms. BABA GROOM (Former Campaign Worker):

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He would wear khaki trousers and some old jacket.

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He was always ready to go out on the road.

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On the phone, you could hear his accent.

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It was a Texas accent.

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But he just melded with everybody.

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GOODWYN: The candidate Mr. Bush was working for, Red Blount, had gotten rich in Alabama in the construction business.

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Prominent Southern Republicans were something of a rare breed in those days.

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Blount 's support of the party led him to be appointed Richard Nixon 's postmaster general.

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In Washington, Blount became friends and tennis partners with Mr. Bush 's father, then Congressman Bush.

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That was how 26-year-old Lieutenant Bush came to Montgomery, at his father 's urging . . .

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