Since you are the brains of the bunch, I hope you will share with me some disgust and outrage, followed by glee, relief and huzzahs, based on these efforts by my favorite free speech org: FIRE.

http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8597.html.

this is real liberalism at work.

Is it not the Buddha who teaches, Insight Is Best Achieved Through Use Of Sarcasm?

Any idea if it is possible to transplant a brain into a human skiull where none resided before. You seem to be the ideal candidate for the first experiment since you have no grasp of the Beauchamp/TNR story yet jump in and insult the commenters.

Thanks for playing. Back to the basement.

Beauchamp described a few soldiers as mocking a disfigured Muslim woman, and claimed falsely in his article that the mockery transpired in Iraq (citing it as an example of how his unit was dehumanized by war). He later owned to his editors that the mocking of the woman took places months(?) earlier — and in Kuwait, before the unit’s deployment to Iraq. Thus he ‘concocted’ not the mockery, but the locating of the mockery in the war theater of Iraq, post-deployment (if you believe there was in fact mockery — something still being contested, it would seem).

So when the LA Times reports that the mockery tale “was concocted,” they are asserting that it NEVER happened, when what they seem to mean is that it never happened IN IRAQ.

I’m sorry i cannot restore to you these last few moments of your life.

The magazine determined that the locating of the incident involving the disfigured woman as taking place in Iraq was concocted and corrected that…

Sorry, I must be coming late to this story. Remind me: where did the TNR conclude that the non-concocted incident with the disfigured woman take place? Since they determined the location, they must also have some idea as its timing (when was that, again?). And they’re sure to have corroboration from some reliable witness besides Beauchamp (help me out–who are they?).

It’s not as if they’d just make this kind of story up as part of an ongoing evasion.

Right?

The magazine determined that the locating of the incident involving the disfigured woman as taking place in Iraq was concocted and corrected that, but also reported that interviews with Beauchamp’s comrades substantiated his version of the other events.

YES I NOW SEE HOW THIS SLOPPY INELIGANCE IS EMBLEMATIC OF A DEEPLY BARREN LEFTISH IDEOLOGICAL MINDSET DEVOID OF LOGIC-DRIVEN PRO-REPUBLICAN ANTI-CALIPHATIC THINKING, WROUGHT BY VENGEFUL AGENDA JOURNALISTS, AS OPPOSED TO JUST, SAY, SHITTY TRUNCATED ILL-EDITED WRITING. ALERT THE BLOGOSPHERE TO THIS FRESH ENEMY WITHIN.

The LA Times being alphie.