Archive for October, 2007
Thank you for all of your help. This wouldn’t have been possible without you.
I arrived back at home earlier this week from just under three months in Iraq, and am settling back into American society (late wake-ups after actual sleep, wonderfully fattening food, fall weather, occasional rain, and the sounds of traffic instead of explosions and gunfire, among other beautiful differences). I’m still slowly-but-surely running the last of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Situation in Iraq is Complicated
Jeff Emanuel
October 26, 2007
The situation in Iraq, rather than being black-and-white and easily explainable, is a million different shades of gray. The individual bits of reality you see there are so fluid that any conclusion they drive you to is bound to be outdated almost as soon as it’s reached. The complexity of the situation [...]
Yep, I still stand by it. Yep, I could be bitten in the backside by it, but I’m not changing.
TNR claims that the Army is the main bad guy in all of this (along, of course, with the Weekly Standard and Drudge), and also claims that Beauchamp contacted them without military supervision to say that actually stands by his fiction as fact after all, but is simply being forced not to say that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Exclusive cover story: A Medal of Honor-worthy story of courage and sacrifice in Samarra (Excerpt #4)
The following is the fourth excerpt from the November issue of The American Spectator magazine’s cover story. More excerpts will follow, leading up to the magazine release of this exclusive recounting of a chilling tale of heroism, courage, and loss one morning six weeks ago in Samarra, as a small US sniper team was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The already nasty fight over S-CHIP isn’t over – and it won’t be any time soon
The fight in Congress over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (or “SCHIP”) continued this week, with Congressional Democrats hastily forcing another vote on their once-vetoed proposal to expand government-funded healthcare. Democrats have been fighting for weeks to pass this SCHIP expansion. First, an initial bill was passed, and was vetoed by President Bush for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )It’s time to lay off of Scott Thomas Beauchamp: Young men make mistakes, and he has learned from his
Jeff Emanuel
October 26, 2007
Note: More here on why I think STB is sincere.
The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist,” Scott Thomas Beauchamp, was thrust into the spotlight once again this week (after a two-month escape into anonymity) by the Drudge Report, which obtained and published U.S. Army documents showing that the erstwhile writer’s stories of soldier atrocities [...]
Andrew Sullivan censors Ron Paul supporters, lies to them about it
At RedState, we were 100% honest and straightforward about our new policy regarding Ron Paul spammers. It’s our site, it’s private property, and it’s a user-driven community, which means that its functionality is largely dependent on our users playing well with others (which is a large part of why we have the Posting Rules linked [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Why I think STB is sincere
I’ve had a lot of folks question why I think that Beauchamp is sincere in wanting to move past this, and asking why in the world I’d think that he’s being anything other than an opportunist in this case, as well, with simply a setback in his original plan to use his military experience to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TNR: Going Down by the Mast
The Drudge Report today drove what should be the final stake in the heart of the seemingly un-killable Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair this week, publishing on its website official documents from the U.S. Army investigation of the formerly pseudonymous “Baghdad Diarist’s” claims of reprehensible behavior on the part of himself and his fellow soldiers while [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Exclusive cover story: A Medal of Honor-worthy story of courage and sacrifice in Samarra (Excerpt #3)
The following is the third in a series of excerpts from the cover story of The American Spectator magazine’s November issue. More excerpts will follow, leading up to the magazine release of this exclusive recounting of a chilling tale of heroism, courage, and loss one morning six weeks ago in Samarra, as a small [...]
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