Latest chapter in the Scott Thomas Beauchamp saga

From TNR: Earlier this week, The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb published a report, based on a single anonymous “military source close to the investigation,” entitled “Beauchamp Recants,” claiming that Beauchamp “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,’…

Murdering Iraqis – not that there’s anything wrong with that

Yet again, the US military investigates its own for the Haditha massacre, and finds them innocent. Sharratt is the second Marine to have murder charges dropped after allegations against Sergeant Sanick DeLa Cruz were withdrawn in April. Similarly, soldiers who finish off Iraqi’s are also to be found innocent. Of course these people are innocent.…

Nothing to see here – move along

The US military investigates its own and concludes they are innocent. An Army investigation has found no truth in a soldier’s claims of inhumane conduct by US troops on the battlefield, which were published in The New Republic earlier this year. But the magazine is standing by its story, and debate over Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s…

Absurd priorities

The US military continues to demonstrate that when it comes to sexuality, double standards are the norm. A man with a spotless service record is being court martialled for being assumed to be gay. Hi crime? For allegedly touching some colleagues and using inappropriate language. In addition, according to sworn testimony during the trial, two…

Scott Thomas follow-up

Remember Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the soldier in Iraq who wrote a piece last month for the New Republic in which he recounted stories of (a) mocking a disfigured woman, (b) a fellow soldier who wore a piece of a child’s skull he had found, and (c) another fellow soldier who ran over dogs with his…

Soldiers who tell the truth must be destroyed

The reaction of the right wing blogosphere to the Scott Beauchamp (aka Scott Thomas) affair has been taken to extreme proportions.…  Watching the so called “troop supporters” turn on one of their own is like imagining a school of piranha feasting on a new born lamb. Brother Gavin Explains it pretty well: 1) WingNet accuses…

Right wing hysterics over Scott Thomas

For those not familiar with the Scott Thomas saga, he’s a soldier in Iraq who wrote a couple of columns (using a pseudonym) for The New Republic (TNR), describing the ways in which war robs us of our humanity. He cited examples of one soldier who dug up a skull and wore it on his…

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