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Pvt. Beauchamp: In Big Trouble Either Way
realclearpolitics.com ^ | July 27, 2007 | Jack Kelly

Posted on 07/26/2007 11:38:47 PM PDT by neverdem

If what Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp wrote in the New Republic isn't true, he's in trouble, and so is the magazine.

If what Pvt. Beauchamp wrote is true, he's in bigger trouble.

Pvt. Beauchamp is the Baghdad Diarist whose July 13 article, written under the clever pseudonym "Scott Thomas," drew much skepticism.

Pvt. Beauchamp described how he made fun of a woman whose face had been severely scarred by an IED: "I love chicks that have been intimate with IEDS," Pvt. Beauchamp quotes himself as saying, loudly, to his buddies in the chow hall. "It really turns me on -- melted skin, missing limbs, plastic noses."

"My friend was practically falling out of his chair laughing," Pvt. Beauchamp recounted. "The disfigured woman slammed her cup down and ran out of the chow hall."

Next he described finding the remains of children in a Saddam-era mass grave uncovered when his unit was constructing a combat outpost: "One private...found the top part of a human skull...He marched around with the skull on his head...No one was disgusted. Me included."

Finally, Pvt. Beauchamp described another friend "who only really enjoyed driving Bradley Fighting Vehicles because it gave him the opportunity to run things over. He took out curbs, concrete barriers, corners of buildings, stands in the market, and his favorite target: dogs."

Pvt. Beauchamp described how his friend killed three dogs in one day: "He slowed the Bradley down to lure the first kill in, and, as the diesel engine grew quieter, the dog walked close enough for him to jerk the machine hard to the right and snag its leg under the tracks."

The New Republic's editors told Michael Goldfarb...

--snip--

It is physically impossible for the driver of a Bradley to see a dog to the immediate right of his vehicle.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beauchamp; iraq; scottthomas; tnr
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Looks like Beauchamp should consider a name change to T.N.R. Beauchump.
1 posted on 07/26/2007 11:38:52 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
...or Michael Vick
2 posted on 07/26/2007 11:42:28 PM PDT by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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To: neverdem

I wonder if Scoot Beauchamp will be heading home....VERY soon?


3 posted on 07/26/2007 11:46:50 PM PDT by Allegra (22)
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To: neverdem

Well its good to know he made up that part about the dogs.


4 posted on 07/26/2007 11:46:52 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine
Well its good to know he made up that part about the dogs.

And the curbs, concrete barriers and sides of buildings as well.

There's no way any of that would be tolerated.

5 posted on 07/26/2007 11:47:53 PM PDT by Allegra (22)
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To: neverdem

Isn’t this an incredibly obvious BSer?


6 posted on 07/26/2007 11:49:20 PM PDT by conserveababe (Every time an abortion clinic is bombed, a thousand fence-sitters join NARAL.)
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To: neverdem
“Scott Thomas” steps out of the shadows


7 posted on 07/26/2007 11:50:04 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: neverdem
The New Republic's editors told Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard the chow hall incident occurred at Forward Operating Base Falcon near Baghdad.

Actually it's right in Baghdad, not too far from the center of it.

And there is no record of any mass graves being discovered any time in the past year in that vicinity.

8 posted on 07/26/2007 11:52:41 PM PDT by Allegra (22)
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To: neverdem

I wonder if he’ll get his wish. To be a rich, famous liberal writer/commentator on the Iraq war. Or will even the left turn on him. I’d love to get in this punk’s face and ask him what the hell he thought was so funny about someone with severe facial injuries or a guy with a childs skull on his head? I wonder if the left has its limits on who they will lionize. Or will they attempt a defense of: “well, there are OTHER atrocities committed by the troops that are worse, so really no big deal, etc”.


9 posted on 07/26/2007 11:52:57 PM PDT by boop (Trunk Monkey. Is there anything he can't do?)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Is it me, or does he look a tad bit uh, er, metrosexual, if you catch my drift? Lucky for him the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rule is still in force...

I hope that he is drummed out of the Army with at least a bad conduct discharge.


10 posted on 07/26/2007 11:55:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum)
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To: neverdem
On his blog (Sir Real Scott Thomas), Pvt. Beauchamp indicates he's an aspiring writer who joined the Army to establish credentials for voicing his liberal political opinions.

And there we have the agenda. The reason behind all the BS.

When Beauchamp grows up, he wants to be a CNN reporter.

11 posted on 07/26/2007 11:57:05 PM PDT by Allegra (22)
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To: neverdem
(The caliber of an M-16 rifle is .556 millimeters.)

Another idiot who doesn't know his ammo. It is 5.56 mm.

12 posted on 07/26/2007 11:58:23 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
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To: neverdem

“On his blog (Sir Real Scott Thomas), Pvt. Beauchamp indicates he’s an aspiring writer who joined the Army to establish credentials for voicing his liberal political opinions.”

The NY Times will snap him up in a New York second.


13 posted on 07/27/2007 12:03:16 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...I hope that he is drummed out of the Army with at least a bad conduct discharge."

More is better!

14 posted on 07/27/2007 12:05:02 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I started to comment that he’s probably gay as well, but good taste precludes me from doing so.
Ooops...guess I did it anyway.


15 posted on 07/27/2007 12:05:15 AM PDT by MadJack ("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
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To: Allegra
I wonder if Scoot Beauchamp will be heading home....VERY soon?

With admin discharge and tagged with a personality disorder?

16 posted on 07/27/2007 12:08:28 AM PDT by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Thanks for the link.


17 posted on 07/27/2007 12:09:35 AM PDT by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: Allegra
When Beauchamp grows up, he wants to be a CNN reporter.

Seems a bit overqualified now.

18 posted on 07/27/2007 12:09:43 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("You can't strengthen a zero, it will always equal zero." --Avigdor Lieberman)
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To: neverdem

A question for the ages...

“Why do some boys try to act like men by pretending to be @$$es?”


19 posted on 07/27/2007 12:16:28 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Allegra
I wonder if Scoot Beauchamp will be heading home....VERY soon?

I have to wonder if being sent home wasn't his intention all along
20 posted on 07/27/2007 12:24:54 AM PDT by boxerblues
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