Yes, some of the same stupid references have surfaced here. Facts to many are less important than attacking the messenger.

This is the “politics of personal destruction” that the Clintonistas mastered in the 1990s.

We have to live with it evermore, I fear.

Before Beauchamp was revealed, John Barnes, a statistical semiotician who blogs on Amazon, took some guesses about who he’d be, based on the style and viewpoint in his writing:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK1A3L4YEO74C19

It’s amazing how close Barnes came. He predicted: early- to mid-20s, pretentious, a consumer of college / MFA writing classes, at least somewhat sociopathic, and a military-wannabee. He was wrong only on the last point. And only partly: Barnes allowed that Beauchamp might have some military experience and might just be a *combat*-wannabee. Which proved true (Beauchamp is a behind-the-lines mechanic).

Next – Confederate Yankee has questions about yet another “colorful” (but disgusting, sociopathic) Beauchamp anecdote:
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/236955.php

…I’ve been saying from the start [that] regardless of the Diarists’ accuracy, the editorial decision to run them without putting them into context of the 160,000 men and women who are serving nobly in Iraq represented an unconscionable slander on our troops… For the people who know our soldiers, who are in contact with them and who really do support them… the Beauchamp Diarists were grotesquely unfair.

But there’s more. I hadn’t quite understood, for example, just how physically impossible is Beauchamp’s vivid, unforgettably detailed decription of the alleged dog-severed-by-Bradley. (Note: Beauchamp’s description becomes possible if someone had hung off the side of his “speeding” Bradley and severed the dog with a sword; but that in itself would be extremely far-fetched, and Beauchamp never alleged it.)

Read the whole thing!

Next, they review some other good commentaries, summing up The New Republic’s corruption and moral dereliction: The Baghdad Fabulist

As milblogger John Noonan has put it (quoted in above TWS link):

…of the 160k troops in Iraq, TNR choose a real dirtball to serve as their correspondent. When other soldiers are out building schools, providing medical care, and running security operations for the Iraqi people, TNR decided to highlight a real slug of a mechanic who mocks the disfigured and disrespects the dead for kicks.

To which TWS adds, “At least in his imagination, anyway.”

Obviously, I can’t add a thing to all that.

You forget, ILC. This is the Army that can flush an entire Koran down the toilet. Running over a dog with a Bradley is just a milk run after that. If not, team killing fcuktards like keogh and Beaushamps will make it appear so, regardless of reality.

His answer?

“I’ve been here 14 months, and I’ve never seen a Humvee run over a dog… [as for a Bradley, an even clumsier vehicle:] Really, there’s no way a Bradley could run over a dog, unless it were already laying in the road…”

In the eagerness of the media elite to report on U.S. atrocities, they neglect stories of those committed by our enemies…

Just the left-liberal’s usual racism, narcissism and delusions of (false) power and safety, GPW.

“The soft bigotry of low expectations”… To a left-liberal, it doesn’t matter how low our enemies go, because they’re just yellow- or brown-skinned animals (that’s the racism) whom we drove to distraction. Only our actions and goals ever matter; we – not our enemies and their own goals / choices – cause whatever they want to do to us (that’s the narcissism).

All we have to do to make them go away or act differently, is act differently ourselves; in other words, we secretly have complete control of the situation (that’s the delusion of false power and safety).