http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/252602.php
For those of you who followed the Scott Beauchamp/New Republic saga, these military documents will hold great fascination. For they hold within them the kernels of truth which Scott Beauchamp then turned into publishing dynamite (love those mixed metaphors). His fanciful stories about grotesque US soldiers mocking war-damaged Iraqis, covering up mass-murder and killing innocent dogs(I know, what?) shocked middle-of-the-road America. Confronted by the statements of other soldiers in Scott Beauchamps unit, the New Republic stood by its author (whose wife worked at New Republic) and his story. It carried on standing by them long after everybody else was satisfied that the stories were politically motivated fabrications.
The military soon tracked Beauchamp down, and he was interrogated. These documents are the record of that interrogation. They show what 'inspired' the callow youth in his creative writing. Now, I like shaggy dog stories, creative writing and even textual boondoggles. But these invented stories brought the whole US army into disrepute with the people who vote on whether they should be in-theatre or not. Thats a great big nest of hornets to stir up. I get the impression he was talked into this by his wife, who is presumably of the Harry Reid/Cindy Sheehan school of 'truth'. But the 'truth' has a very hard time up against the truth.
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