TagsTagsHere’s an excellent post at Shield of Achilles, recapping the many leftist bloggers and pundits who blindly supported Scott Beauchamp even as his fables began to unravel; includes quotes from Andrew Sullivan, Matthew Yglesias, Glenn Greenwald (aka Socky the Sockpuppet), Kevin Drum, Joshua Marshall, John Cole, and on and on: ...
From Commentary Magazine’s Contentions blog, here’s an interview with Max Boot on the war in Iraq and the troop “surge,” and the overall war against jihadism and Islamic supremacism. [Video]
LGF, Iraq, Surge, War on Terror, Islamic Fascism, Militant Islam
At The Weekly Standard, a statement from the Army on Scott Beauchamp, and The New Republic’s claim that he’s being prevented from communicating: We are not preventing him from speaking to TNR or anyone. He has full access to the Morale Welfare and Recreation phones that all the other members of ...
Michael J. Totten interviews an Iraqi translator for US forces, in another of his must-read reports from the ground in Iraq: Michael J. Totten: An Iraqi Interpreter’s Story. MJT: Why do you work with Americans? Hammer: When I was 14 years old all I liked was American cars and American movies. America ...
The New Republic editors have another statement on the Scott Beauchamp scandal: A Scott Beauchamp Update. It’s mostly more of the same (critics are driven by ideology, critics hate truthiness, you know the drill), but there’s one little brand new detail in what they’re telling us now: Here’s what we know: On ...
In his column on The New Republic Scott Beauchamp scandal, Charles Krauthammer zeroes in on the important aspect, the little detail that The New Republic tried to pass off as a simple mistake: The Baghdad Fabulist. Except that it is now revealed that the mess-hall incident happened before he even got ...
LGF, Krauthammer, Iraq, New Republic, Scott Thomas, Scott Beauchamp
Here’s our jaw-droppingly sick 2-minute leftist hate of the day, at the Guardian’s “Comment is free” pseudo-blog, where journalist Neil Clark argues that Iraqi translators working for UK forces are “traitors,” and should not be allowed asylum in Britain. Instead, Clark hopes they’ll be slaughtered by the “true heroes” of Iraq. ...
LGF, Guardian, Iraq, Neil Clark, Translators, Anti-war, Progressives, Leftists
Bob Owens continues doing the fact-checking The New Republic should have done: Confederate Yankee: When Hidden Experts Are Found. The money grafs: In other words, BAE System’s Head of Communications over the division than manufactures the Bradley IFV was never specifically asked to comment on the claims made in “Shock Troops” ...
All charges have been dropped against two of the Marines in the Haditha case. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine general dropped all charges on Thursday against two Marines in the shooting deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, scene of what Iraqi witnesses said was a massacre by American troops. ...
LGF, Iraq, Haditha, War Crimes, Marines
Yesterday the New York Times and Washington Post published reports on the New Republic’s disintegrating credibility, and today it’s the Associated Press’s turn: New Republic Iraq stories questioned. NEW YORK - A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, ...
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, AP
Well, I’m back in my top-secret chamber beneath Denver International Airport, and tonight it looks as if The New Republic plans to drive their flaming jalopy right off the cliff. They’re disputing the Weekly Standard’s report that Scott Beauchamp recanted his stories, and editor Franklin Foer is demanding apologies from ...
A search on The New Republic for “Shock Troops” turns up no results; they’ve apparently removed Scott Beauchamp’s articles without a word. So here’s an open Tuesday morning thread to discuss the dog that didn’t bark in the night. (Note: expect another day of sporadic posting; I’m traveling and won’t have access ...
Not to worry, I still exist in the corporeal realm. The business I mentioned earlier ended up taking all day. So here’s a thread for the latest in the Scott Beauchamp scandal ... and I do mean “scandal:” Breaking: Beauchamp signs military statement recanting TNR pieces; Update: “armylawyer” comments. Also see ...
More from Bob Owens on Scott Beauchamp story, which now appears to be a full-blown Stephen Glass-style scandal: Further Confirmation: No Burned Woman Here. Adding to the debunking of The New Republic’s new claim that “burned contractor” story took place in Kuwait before PV-2 Scott Thomas Beauchamp deployed into a combat ...
When The New Republic issued their latest statement on the Scott Beauchamp story, they apparently forgot to mention that the PAO of the base where Beauchamp’s “burned woman” story was situated told them the story could not be verified, and was “considered to be an urban legend or myth.” Now why, ...
Bob Owens has been in contact with the Public Affairs Officer for General David Petraeus: It’s Official: Beauchamp’s Claims Debunked by Army Internal Investigation. Col. Steven Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for U.S. Army Commanding General in Iraq David Petraeus, just emailed me the following in response to my request to confirm ...
Isn’t that nice. Creepy Max Blumenthal’s smear job is now showing up at Yahoo News, via The Nation: The Weekly Standard’s Strange Sources. Blumenthal can smell teh ghey all over this story, and in the course of figuring out that former TNR staffer ‘Throbert McGee’ is not heterosexual (hey, no kidding) ...
Game over for The New Republic: Beauchamp Investigation Concluded. After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation(s) made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the “Baghdad Diarist”, have been “refuted by members of his platoon and proven ...
Forwarded without commentary, for the moment: Shakespeare’s Sister: More Beauchamp.
The New Republic has made another statement on the “Shock Troops” article, and Ace has analyzed the semiotical contextuality, finding it less than compelling. I’ll start with this: In the first, Beauchamp recounted how he and a fellow soldier mocked a disfigured woman seated near them in a dining hall. Three ...
The world center of radical Islam, a religious apartheid kingdom that exports and promotes jihad ideology, subverts moderate Islam and destroys local cultures, and supplies more than half of the foreign holy warriors currently in Iraq, is planning to open an embassy in Baghdad: Saudis Begin Talks on Opening Embassy ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Apartheid, Terrorism, Iraq
Michael J. Totten has another riveting report from Baghdad: Baghdad Raid Night. BAGHDAD – “We want to use you as bait,” Sergeant Eduardo Ojeda from Los Angeles, California, told me before I embedded with his unit on what was shaping up to be a night raid. “Excellent,” I said. “That’s why I’m ...
Democratic House Majority Whip James Clyburn says that a positive report on the Iraq “surge” from General Petraeus would be “a problem for us.” Not “good news for the country”— a “problem.” Clyburn noted that Petraeus carries significant weight among the 47 members of the Blue Dog caucus in the House, a ...
Does the Iraqi government really want to make a go of it? It’s not easy to see anything good about this development: Laws unpassed, Iraqi parliament calls summer break. BAGHDAD, July 30 (Reuters) - Iraq’s parliament adjourned for its summer recess on Monday, taking a break until September despite having failed ...
In another ridiculous attack on bloggers covering the New Republic Scott Beauchamp incident, Paul McLeary of the partisan hack outlet the Columbia Journalism Review says milbloggers are chickenhawks. Maybe the AP should publish a Blog Terminology Dictionary, like their [Amazon Link], so that idiots like McLeary have a chance to avoid ...
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Columbia Journalism Review