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 ...
I wonder if Scoot Beauchamp will be heading home....VERY soon?
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.
Isn’t this an incredibly obvious BSer?
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.
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”.
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.
And there we have the agenda. The reason behind all the BS.
When Beauchamp grows up, he wants to be a CNN reporter.
Another idiot who doesn't know his ammo. It is 5.56 mm.
“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.
More is better!
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.
With admin discharge and tagged with a personality disorder?
Thanks for the link.
Seems a bit overqualified now.
A question for the ages...
“Why do some boys try to act like men by pretending to be @$$es?”
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