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When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said that the Benghazi report — crafted by his own Republican colleagues and Democrats — was “full of crap,” it raised some eyebrows
But, still, one could attribute this inelegant language to political differences, even ugly partisanship.
But then, along comes a man who has consistently shown disdain and contempt for what the American people think or believe and who calls a report on illegal and immoral torture abuses that happened under his watch — again, a report put together by Democrats and Republicans — “full of crap.”
This is the same man who, in the middle of a devastating, unjustified war that killed more than 4,000 Americans, had the temerity to dismiss the opinion of two-thirds of Americans who believed that the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, that the cost in lives was not worth the gains, with one single word, “So?”
This time, the former Vice President of these United States is a little more rhetorical and uses three words to dismiss the results of “an exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects.”
“Full of crap.”
That is what Mr. Cheney calls a report described by the Washington Post as “a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.”
By calling the report documenting actions that were clearly unconstitutional, unlawful, immoral and un-American, “full of crap,” Mr. Cheney is not just expressing a partisan opinion, not just deriding the opinions and deeply held values of millions of Americans — as he has done so often.
No, he is calling those Americans whose principles are assaulted and whose consciences are deeply conflicted by what their government has done in their name, “full of crap.”
Well, here is one American who is proud to be full of crap.
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