It is designed to humanize this fungus-of-an-America-hating-human by fogging his name-calling past with a counterfeit rhetorical countermeasure.
He believes none of this, there is NO reason why any thinking person should believe that the American Military-slandering, al queda-admiring worm has turned, as much as a micron.
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A man who would get his moment of jollity at the expense of the widow and orphan of a decent man who died a tragic death displays it perfectly.
Drunk, stoned and stupid is no way to go through life.