According to Matt Sanchez, who is at the Camp in question, the Army has concluded their investigation and….TA DA!
After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the "Baghdad Diarist", have been
"refuted by members of his platoon and proven to be false"
The official investigation the 4th IBCT Public Affairs Office qualified as "thorough and professional" concluded late August 1st. Officials would not speculate on the possibility of further action against Private Beauchamp, nor would they confirm his current whereabouts or status.
Bob Owens also received word from Kuwait where this loser NOW claims the burned woman story occurred.
This morning, I contact Major Renee D. Russo, Third Army USARCENT PAO in Kuwait, to ask her if she knew of "a female civilian contractor at Camp Buehring with severe facial burns, and if so, when" she was there.
Here is her emailed response, in full.
Mr. Owens,
We have received other media queries on the alleged incident, but have
not been able to find anyone to back it up. There is not a police
report or complaint filed on this incident during that timeframe. Right now it is considered to be a Urban Legend or Myth.I am still researching the incident and will have to get back with you
later with any new developments.As it stands now, the U.S. Army in Kuwait, like the U.S. Army in Iraq, is casting strong doubts on the veracity of Beauchamp’s claims, stating that to the best they can determine at this time, the female contractor Beauchamp claims to have abused is either part of an "urban legend or myth."
All the editor of TNR can fall back on is that a manufacturer of the Bradleys says its possible to maneuver the bradley in such a way to hit a dog. Of course the complaint was about the visibility on the drivers side which made it impossible for the driver to maneuver like that. Funny how they don’t print an answer to that one.
Just one more pathetic example of the tactics used by the liberal left to get what they want. Total defeat of the United States in Iraq. They will stop at nothing to ensure that what happened in Vietnam happens once again. They want our soldiers to spit upon when they arrive home. They want them hated.
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Now TNR sates this all happened in Kuwait!!?? Just a tiny geographical error there…. Just about 400 miles!! Also, the moron’s blog pretty much indicates all of these acts took place IN Iraq. Even PV2 Beauchamp SHOULD have brains enough to know which country he is in at any given day.
Or is this going to turn into him telling Congress about his being in Pakistan during Christmas?
It does not matter WHERE this incident with the conjured up injured female happened. If these idiots harrassed a person at Ali Al Saleem Airbase, Kuwait, the DFAC at their home station, Iraq, or WallyWorld, NCOs and Officers would have been all over them in a heartbeat.
The fact TNR is STILL sticking with the idiotic lies reeks of a rabid agenda and a “to Hell with the facts, it’s all Bush’s fault” mentality.
As if the photoshop scandels, Jamal Hussain, AP terrorist “stringers”, made up IED stories, and several other glaring lies were not telling enough.
This debate doesn’t address the real issue of the terrible impact this war has had on Iraqis. Last year, a scientific study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimated that 650,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the invasion.
Now, this organization estimates that the Iraqi death toll is approaching one million:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Awful.
You are kidding right? You actually believe the widely discredited Lancet “study”? That 650,000 number was flushed as soon as the politically driven “study” came out.
Do you think it is the USA and the Coalition killing Iraqi civilians? DO YOU? Here is a hint: US Military Members and our allies go out of our way to protect civilians, even at the costs of our own lives. Our enemies use civilians for disposable target reference points and blood for the cameras. Saddam slaughtered millions before being removed.
Here is the truth: Islamofascists (they would call themselves ‘true followers of Islam’), who have existed LONG before 2001, are killing Iraqi civilains (though no where NEAR the “study’s” numbers). They are also killing Afghanis; Somolies; Christians in Darfur; people throughout Africa; conducting piracy in the Straits of Malacca and off Somolia; killing “infidels” in Malaysia and Indonesia; setting off bombs in the UK; burning cars and staging riots in France; killing Dutch movie directors; rioting over cartoons; trying desperatly to hit targets within the USA; and the list goes on and on.
Invading Iraq did not “cause” islamofascism or “cause” these peaople to ‘hate’ us. They ALWAYS have hated us. Their “leaders” whip them into a fanatical fury of “jihad” and “death for Allah” and then let their brainwashed flock loose on the world. Notice, however, the “leaders” all state how these morons with bombvests are “heros” and will be welcomed to “paradise”, yet never volunteer to go to paradise themselves. Their flock is beginning to notice.
The only way we will realistically stop these people from trying to kill us is to show a better, more prosperious way of life than “jihad” and 7th century barbarism. The terrorists are already losing. Bombing civilians, cutting their faces off with piano wire, baking children, and other disgusting intimidation tactics the terrorists, ba’athists, and other islamofascists use are tactics of a desperate, losing side.
Now the Iraqis are not only standing up to these terrorists, but are fighting back. Yet you SOUND like you want to believe ANOTHER leftist lie and abandon the Iraqi people to these islamofascist butchers!
Nope, he isn’t kidding Chris. These people will believe anything, even that which is proven bogus, as long as it allows them to believe that the US is the evil boogieman.
The Lancet study failed to reject the null hypothesis, that the war has had no effect on civilian casualties.
In other words, it can draw no conclusions.
Why did they bother publishing in that case? Search me…
Curt
This million number has turned up on a number of blogs I follow today and the bots are putting it out.
One Million dead / five years / 365 days per year =
547.94520547945205479452054794521 deaths per day.
Find me anywhere the press clippings that support even a single day death toll that high.