TNR hasn’t learned a thing since l’affaire Glass.
Beauchamp claimed that he and a group of fellow soldiers mocked a disfigured woman in a US occupied sector of Iraq.
The truth seems to be that Beauchamp and one other soldier mocked this unfortunate woman in Kuwait.
Beauchamp also claimed that children's bones were found near the camp, implying that US troops likely killed children, but that the gruesome discovery was hushed up and went unreported.
The reality seems to be that the camp was near a well-known Hussein-era mass grave and that the remains were very old.
Finally Beauchamp claimed that US soldiers sport killed dogs with Bradley vehicles.
The reality seems to be that Bradley vehicles exist, and that there are stray dogs in Iraq.
In other words - all this stuff is either lies or unconfirmed rumors.
A few observations:
(1) TNR intersperses this weak retraction with brand-new, unsourced and unconfirmed rumors: "One soldier wore a skull like a yarmulke" (nice whiff of anti-Semitism there, no?).
(2) All the corroboration offered is that it is technically possible that some of this could have happened: that isn't confirmation.
(3) The corroborators are unnamed friends of Beauchamp. Why should they be considered trustworthy?