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Originally Posted by Highwayman  Outdated report.. |
Well yesterday is in the past but not as much in the past as the first two weeks of August are.
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Originally Posted by Highwayman He’s being “attacked” as you call it because he made false statements, not because he wrote something that some folks didn’t like. If you actually did your homework you would know that much of what he wrote wasn’t passing the smell test and that’s why it was checked out. . |
Oh, are you embedded over there? I'm not. The Weekly Standard isn't, nor is the New Republic. The only points I made were:
1. That the Weekly Standards's reporting was wishful thinking in the author had recanted.' .
2. As the original poster intended, any US soldier writing anything other than "we're doing the right thing here" is subject to various forms of attack. The messenger is attacked just as violently as the message.
That there was(is) an investigation and that the Army publicly denies the actions happened should be surprising to no one. But using the Bassett's term of bs, this army has passed enough of it out that one would wonder if they would admit whatever he wrote about had a basis in fact
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Originally Posted by Highwayman It is over the press wires. Just because you haven’t noticed doesn’t make it not so. |
Show me where I said whatever Beauchamp wrote was true. All I have said is it has not been proven to be false. Some want to believe it is false but that is different from being false. As far as I am concerned it's just as wrong for the TNR to accept confirmation from five annonymous sources prior to printing as it is for them to poo-poo other annonymous sources that are cited in the others trying to prove it false. TNR got burned once before for shoddy verification and if they get burned again, it's their own damn fault.
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Originally Posted by Highwayman I think Maj. Lamb is close enough to an official. |
I think Maj Lamb would be joining Pvt. Beauchamp on whatever punishment they heap on him should Maj Lamb differeniate from his script.
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Originally Posted by Highwayman The greater point is that it wasn’t disclosed until TNR was forced to disclose it after the fact. |
They weren't forced to disclose it, they chose to disclose it.