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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
He purportedly [I saw purportedly because no one has even verified this, save, according to TNR, "one" other source] wrote about something he did prior to ever stepping foot in Iraq.
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Yes. He and others mocked a woman who had been burned or scarred, but they did it in Kuwait or Iraq.
I'm not saying that the mistake is OK -- and, really, while it certainly could be a lie, it seems equally likely to me that he recalled that it happened on a military base in the Middle East and got the country wrong, though of course if you start with the assumption that he's lying then it's much easier to conclude that he's lying -- but what you and the right-wing nutjob bloggers are doing goes way beyond making a mountain out of a mole hill. I mean, who cares? I'm not defending the error, but I think the reaction to it is pathological.
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So basically if I buy a ticket to Iraq for some point in the future, it gives me carte blanche to publish false stories about the military today?
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He didn't just "buy a ticket." Malkin did that. He enlisted and his serving his country there.
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PS - many of the people attacking him are milbloggers, writing from the ground over there - so let's be honest here, shall we?
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Some of those attacking his attackers have served, too, so let's just stop pretending that the right wing has some sort of special credibility or claim to communion with the experiences of soldiers and Marines on the groud in Iraq. That fact that Beauchamp's piece attacks that pretense is probably what agitates the right wing so much.
