Scott Thomas Beauchamp was a phony. I backed the wrong guy:
An Army investigation into the Baghdad Diarist, a soldier in Iraq who wrote anonymous columns for The New Republic, has concluded that the sometimes shockingly cruel reports were false.
"We are not going into the details of the investigation," Maj. Steven F. Lamb, deputy public affairs officer in Baghdad, wrote in an e-mail message. "The allegations are false, his platoon and company were interviewed, and no one could substantiate the claims he made."
Unfortunately that I put my trust in The New Republic (who still claim their facts check out) has no doubt hurt the ideas I tried to get across, that soldiers sometimes do bad things in war, and, above all, they're human. And apparently humanity can take the form of an ambitious liar. (Be warned: feeling this way makes one a "douche bag" among the unhinged.)
