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Catherine Moy
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Never have I been more ashamed of my colleagues in the media than when they drum up hate for our military with lies. The latest fabrications come from The New Republic, which published flat-out lies written by the left’s latest anti-troops hero, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp:

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.

According to the military source, Beauchamp’s recantation was volunteered on the first day of the military’s investigation. So as Beauchamp was in Iraq signing an affidavit denying the truth of his stories, the New Republic was publishing a statement from him on its website on July 26, in which Beauchamp said, “I’m willing to stand by the entirety of my articles for the New Republic using my real name.”

These lies are more than “white lies” that my grandma told me about; the little ones that never hurt anybody. They are crimes against the state. They are meant to cripple our military, our troops who are literally giving their lives for freedom. Liberals have a long history of blasphemous, treasonous, troop-hating rhetoric.

Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp

And now Mr. Beauchamp has the audacity to question whether people have a right to discuss his behavior. Any real soldier knows that is exactly what he is fighting for.

His own words:

It’s been maddening, to say the least, to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq.

From Michelle Malkin:

Liars such as Sen. John F. Kerry infamously railed against our troops who served under our flag in Vietnam. The John-Kerry-fictions have continued in this war (Now we know what the F of his middle name stands for: Fiction.)

Anti-war “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan trotted out Jesse Macbeth, who spouted fiction about alleged Iraq war crimes that almost outpaced Kerry’s. This was no small feat. Macbeth claimed to be an Army ranger who had seen American troops commit unspeakable atrocities. This was his “Jingas Khan” moment.

But Macbeth was busted (the truth has a way of sneaking out at the most inopportune times), and all of his leftist fans ran away from him like he was Richard Nixon reincarnated.

News sites and blogs from all sides argue their points. But the bottom line is that most, including the original media on the stories, acknowledge that Beauchamp told a helluva load of whoppers. Go to Military.com for the “he said, he said, he lied, they covered.”

This is from Beachamp’s web site, where he is getting a load of flack for his lies:

If a disfigured woman served at your base—others do not remember seeing her in the last year—and you mocked her, then you’re a rotten human being. Alternatively, you made it up and you’re a liar with fantasies of being a rotten human being. Bold, tough, transgressive? I don’t think so.

Not all is lost for the left’s liars such as MacBeth and Beauchamp. If they follow the logical conclusion of their outings and the story of John “Fiction” Kerry, they know that they now have the credentials to run for Senate in a liberal, troop-hating state.