This still leaves the problems of the uniform.… that wasn’t a uniform, and leaves the problem that the woman was or wasn’t a civilian or was or wasn’t a soldier.

I still call bullshit.

You may be right, but at this point it almost doesn’t matter. The fact is, the entire premise of Beauchamp’s story has been vaporized, and TNR has published a lame pre-combat anecdote as an insightful look at the effects of combat on the soldier’s psyche. And yet they’re pleased with their level of fact-checking.

Wow…you guys have BDS. Beauchamp Derangement Syndrome.

Let it go already. Liar or asshole, Beauchamp has about as much relevance to the larger Iraq debate as the pimples on Rush Limbaugh’s ass.

Beauchamp has about as much relevance to the larger Iraq debate as the pimples on Rush Limbaugh’s ass.

True. But he’s very relevant to the larger liberal-narrative-on-the-war debate.

And I wouldn’t underestimate those pimples.

Douchenozzle is what I call ‘im.

Earlier today, a Beauchamp apologist was lambasting conservatives and milbloggers for having short attention spans (and for being smear merchants) because we were waiting for both TNR and the Army to comment on the matter and, due to that, we weren’t talking about the clown 24/7.

Now that TNR has put forth its latest statement only today and we are talking about Beauchamp again, James wants us to “let it go” and says “Wow…you guys have BDS. Beauchamp Derangement Syndrome.”

So which is it?

BTW, if you re-read Beauchamp’s dog-killing story, you’ll find that it no way resembles the account given by the so-called “corroborating” anonymous soldier.

Guess TNR hoped no one would notice that.

Has it been established what Beauchamp’s MOS is?

Do we know, for a fact, that he has ever “seen combat”?

One of the posts on his blog suggested he was a mechanic.

At this point, perhaps someone should check and see if he really did all that compassionate work he claimed.

Great post Geoff, I’m glad you caught this. Of course fellow moron Tushar deserves credit too for alerting everyone.

Seems to me there may be an even bigger hole in the corroboration. In the original story, STB claims to be the person making the comments to the disfigured women, but in the corroboration the unnamed soldier claims “it was just me and Scott, the day that I made that comment.”

In the original story, STB claims to be the person making the comments to the disfigured women, but in the corroboration the unnamed soldier claims “it was just me and Scott, the day that I made that comment.”

As Beauchamp recounts it, it was actually a dialog between them (i.e., both of them made comments), so without clarification, I’m not sure we can say there’s a discrepancy between their stories.

“Wow…you guys have BDS. Beauchamp Derangement Syndrome.

Let it go already. Liar or asshole, Beauchamp has about as much relevance to the larger Iraq debate as the pimples on Rush Limbaugh’s ass.”

The fact that the media is continuously propagandizing against the troops, the war, the will of the democratically elected government of Iraq, and in support of the vilest of enemy is of so little relevance to your life that you can try to change topics by insulting some radio host who you assume is the God of all who disagree with you. I would not be trying to diagnose mental illnesses if I were you. James.

“A forensic anthropologist confirmed to us that it is possible for tufts of hair to be attached to a long-buried fragment of a human skull” Tufts of hair, yes, but “rotting flesh”?! On a Saddam-era corpse?! Please!

“The private wore the skull for the rest of the day and night. He observed that he was grateful his hair had just been cut—since it would make it easier to pick out the pieces of rotting flesh that were digging into his head.”

“Beauchamp has about as much relevance to the larger Iraq debate…”

Isn’t it funny how liberal propaganda stories are Deeply Relevant to the war debate, and deserve national attention, but when they are proved to be lies then they are suddenly unimportant and we are told that we should “move on”.

Why is it when the Left is caught in its lies and fantasies its response is always “Move along, nothing to see here, move along quickly.”

It was the mantra of the Clinton era and they want to bring it back.

The idiotarian Morlocks love lies rather than the truth. Its an odd way to create a political policy.

Where he was is pretty irrelevant actually, and in fact, he could have been in Kuwait on R&R or on his way home. The fact is soldiers in single-sex environments for long periods of time, and I speak from personal experience, take on an even more twisted mentality than they do on a daily basis, when they can go home to wives, and are exposed to civilized society. I have a three-hundred page diary from my year—and never will a word be published, thank you very much—that consists of several personal accounts of things that not even The New Republic would publish. And forgive me for making this assumption if it’s wrong, but the original blogger here has probably never worn the uniform, and if he has, he hasn’t patrolled the city of Baghdad with the rank of less than staff sergeant or lieutenant. Now for the abrasive part: if you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t diminish what we do by acting like an expert.