“Right now, we have no reason to believe that his stories are anything other than what we first suspected them to be: a ‘pastiche of the ‘This is no bullshit . . . stories soldiers like to tell.’” That’s The Weekly Standard’s response to the self-outing of Scott Thomas Beauchamp, otherwise known as The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist” whose Iraq war accounts have been, let’s say, “questioned.” As the solider tells it: “My pieces were always intended to provide my discrete view of the war; they were never intended as a reflection of the entire U.S. Military. I wanted Americans to have one soldier’s view of events in Iraq.”

But that’s still not good enough for the Standard’s Michael Goldfarb, who wants dates and names to go along with Beauchamp’s trio of tales. It’s like their insisting on accuracy and accountability or something.

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