Every time

in the early morning on Tuesday, the 7th of August 2007 by Chad

Every time the left gets a military member to come out with atrocities they committed for whatever reason, pretty soon it comes out to be a lie. Such as when the guy only made it through a couple weeks of boot camp. But have them show up at the door of a left-wing magazine wearing fatigues with a made up story, and “they want to believe!” so much they’ll fall head over heels.

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.”

So… he pretty much rolled over on the first question it sounds like. “Is your name…” “Yes! Yes! Its all a lie! All of it!”