Posted on 08/07/2007 4:25:45 AM PDT by Renfield
The story is coming to a close:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns--signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods--fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of our source.
Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad:
An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by PVT Beauchamp were found to be false. His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims.
According to the military source, Beauchamp's recantation was volunteered on the first day of the military's investigation.
Of course don't tell The New Republic this. They verified everything the loser said.
They can't be faulted too much tho seeing as how his stories fit in so well with the narrative of the Iraq war they believe in so fervently. Our soldiers just HAVE to be bloodthirsty ignorant robots. Just like Three Kings told them they were.
One more made up story on top of the piles of made up stories from our media and the left.
Want to learn more about those stories? Check out the Media Mythbusters wiki here.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/08/beauchamp_recants.asp
Ping
Life may not be real good for Beauchamp at the moment. He worked to destroy the efforts of his fellow soldiers and now everyone knows the truth. Deal with it Beauchamp, you created this mess and now you can suffer the consequences.
The stories are probably ‘true’, in the sense they are genuinely representative of the stories soldiers tell each other while sitting around talking at the end of the day.
Bust down from PVT-2 to junior senator for Massachusetts.
It doesn’t matter. The moonbats will STILL BELIEVE. In fact, they’ll turn it worse. Now, George Bush will have personally ordered Beauchamp tortured until he signed a false statement.
Who wants to bet?
A big step down.
Of course don’t tell The New Republic this. They verified everything the loser said.
Time To Show Foer The Door
hughhewitt.townhall.com ^ | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 | Duane Patterson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877445/posts
Posted on 08/07/2007 1:56:16 AM CDT by Checkers
Michael Goldfarb in the Weekly Standard has just broken news on the Weekly Standard that can only result in the firing of, at the minimum, Franklin Foer, editor of the once-respected New Republic. You simply cannot publish anti-military stories, inflammatory and controversial on their face, without subjecting the wild claims to the most strict fact-checking measures possible. Yet Mr. Foer, it now appears, did just that.
Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the husband of a New Republic staffer who previous to his military service posted anti-war material on a weblog, volunteered to recant the stories that were published in The New Republic on the very first day of the military’s investigation, according to sources to Goldfarb, the very day that Mr. Foer was simultaenously walking away from one proven Beauchamp lie and doubling down on the rest of the allegations in the three stories. Beauchamp’s recant was made under oath.
Now Mr. Foer is in a no-win situation. Either Beauchamp lied under oath to military investigators, making him a liar and destroying his credibility, and taking down the credibility of the editorial staff of the New Republic, and that of the magazine itself.
Or Beauchamp got caught in a lie by military investigators, and when confronted, agreed to recant, making him a liar and destroying his credibility, and taking down the credibility of the editorial staff of the New Republic, and that of the magazine itself.
Whichever is the case, Mr. Foer, as long as he remains editor of TNR, will be the Dan Rather of the political magazine world, a laughing stock caught up in trying to publicly maintain an obvious lie as truth.
(snip)
"It's been maddening, to say the least, to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq. I was initially reluctant to take the time out of my already insane schedule fighting an actual war in order to play some role in an ideological battle that I never wanted to join. That being said, my character, my experiences, and those of my comrades in arms have been called into question, and I believe that it is important to stand by my writing under my real name. "
I predict he will run for and win the Senate seat in Massachusetts.
Fake but accurate...
Assuming his stories were true, failure to report such atrocities to the chain of command is an offense in and of itself. The investigating officer probably pointed this out early on and when he realized the choice was to come clean and admit what a liar he is or possibly face criminal charges, he took the line of least resistance and admitted he was a liar. No loss to him since lying is only a tool to an end, not a moral failing. (Moral, what’s that?) And it will not affect his credibility with TNR readers, because for them, ‘fake, but accurate’ is OK.
The moonbats will STILL BELIEVE.
They will join the one who believe that 9/11 was set-up by Bush, the were no WMD’s, Iraq didn’t aid AQ, etc, etc, etc.
I don't believe this one bit!
I just did a search for “Beauchamp” at The New Republic website...nothing shows up. Nada. May not be anything, but it seems strange.
” was initially reluctant to take the time out of my already insane schedule fighting an actual war”
He worked in the motor pool. This makes it sound like he was out walking the streets.
(Note: not that there’s anything wrong with working in the motor pool. Someone has to keep the humvees running.)
He was a Deaniac when he was at the University of MO. Then joined the military to bolster his credibility. So much for that plan.
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