Recently, the leftist The New Republic published a series of articles - Shock Troops - written under a pseudonym by a US soldier.

These 'diaries' contained anecdotes of US soldiers doing terrible things - mocking a disfigured woman, playing with child's skulls, etc. Basically, it was designed solely to portray US soldiers as evil, inhuman monsters.

The leftists, of course, said this was all completely plausible that military vets are horrible people because of their experiences and the nature of the military and war - which is always the most terrible thing in the world, and so therefore is anyone who supports it.

People with military knowledge poked several holes in the stories, which TNR began to retreat from - acknowledging some of it may not have been entirely true.

As it turns out, TNR have been helping a scumbag liar, who they have supported and stood behind, claiming it was true, but now it turns out the writer - Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp - has recanted:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns--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," in the words of our source.

Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad:

An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by PVT Beauchamp were found to be false. His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblog...mp_recants.asp

Hmm, too bad for the lefties - turns out all our soldiers aren't terrible people.

Crazed Rabbit

*The term lefties, as always, is generalized to American leftists and even then it's still a generalization.