Comments on: Beauchamp, The Liar, Joins The Army Of Liberal Liars

By: russell704

russell704 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:51:26 +0000

Reading all the security-oriented blogs I do, this prompts my first comment on your excellent site.

The left-wing narrative that the U.S. was going to seize Iraq’s and turn Iraq into a part of the Amerikan Empire, amplified by the early-adopters in the MSM, must have scared the shit out of the Iraqis. Saddam was right!

Just like today, the constant effort to abandon Iraq to sectarian violence and possible genocide by the U.S. left is just about the last card the AQ has to play–”We will be the strong horse in the end and we will punish those who have stood against us.”

Thanks a lot, Democratic Party.

By: dhunter

dhunter — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:42:55 +0000

And the Parids Hilton watchers will never know because the mainstream media will not cover it. Can they sink any lower? I suspect they will.

By: WWS

WWS — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:34:54 +0000

There’s a third option, angevin, and this is the one I expect TNR and the vast majority of the left to follow. This is simply to ignore this entire episode as “old news” from now on. They won’t acknowledge they lied, they won’t acknowledge they did anything wrong, and they’ll claim that anyone who demands an accounting is “mean-spirited” and “excessively partisan.” Better yet, “using the war to achieve ideological ends.”

They will never account for their lies, because they don’t think they have to. They just tell them and move on to the next one, and the next, and the next.

By: Angevin13

Angevin13 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:38 +0000

Excellent post.

Scott Thomas Beauchamp is a liar. Either he lied to TNR, or he lied to Army investigators. And whatever he told the Army – lie or truth – is presumably under oath.

There’s two strategies the left will have for this, and they’re not mutually exclusive. One, of course, is the “fake but true” defense – so what if Beauchamp fudged a few facts, invented a few stories, or libelled the troops – we all know they’re monsters anyway, right? The other is that Beauchamp “did what he had to do” and lied to the “oppressive” Army investigation in order to protect his fellow company members who were involved in the incidents he described in “Shock Troops.”