Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp -- still wondering about the MFA

Posted By Laughing_Wolf

As noted in an update to the post below, there is now a name. I think the money quote is:

My pieces were always intended to provide my discreet 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.

Uh Huh. Discrete. Not intended to reflect on the entire military. Right. Looks like some of the milblog analysis as to possible unit was pretty close if not spot on. As I said below, let the Truth be out. Despite what is being said by TNR about the stories being checked to see if they passed a smell test, the fact is that numerous veterans, veterans of Iraq, and those current serving in Iraq (despite what one suddenly appearing commentor says) said the stories did not pass the smell test. When something creates that large a smell, it needs to be checked. Are they real? Is the author just one of the BS artists/serial complainers/etc.? Well, it was clear they were a BS artist, but... Now that the author has stepped forward, the stories can be checked, verified, and whatever actions are appropriate taken. Let the Truth be out, for we will all be better for it.

LW

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a good good roundup on this "dung beetle" (borrowing from Uncle J). Complainer? Check. BS artist? Check (Dusty, I've noted that one before and have a number of things I want to say about him, but Matt has a bar of soap for my mouth if I use that language here). Jimbo has a good smackdown above. Well, Bleu Beau has his wish. He is now living in interesting times, and come to the attention of important and powerful people. May it deliver all he deserves.

UPDATE II: You have got to be kidding me! Did Valerie Plame clone herself??? Also, TNR seems much more interested in plugging leaks than in doing all that rigorous fact checking they've been talking about. Think any credibility Bleu Beau and TNR may have had (tenuous at best) has just gone up in smoke. Expect even larger amounts of chickenhawk and consipracy chaff to be thrown out in a desperate attempt to break lock...

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Comments

[Cannoneer No4]

This Blue Falcon from FOB Falcon richly deserves what he has coming to him. He is The Surge's Lindi England.

Thanks to him, blogging from theater is going to be a whole lot tougher.

Tet Comes Early This Year. Even earlier, now.

[Dusty]

"Is the author just one of the BS artists/serial complainers/etc.?"

This might help you decide, LW. It's his blog while in Germany.

http://ghostsonfilm.blogspot.com/

[SoldierNoLongerInIraq]

"Looks like some of the milblog analysis as to possible unit was pretty close if not spot on."

I thought most of the "analysis" concluded he didn't exist?

Hilarious.

Anyway, we'll see if the asshattery he described matched in reality the asshattery many of us saw.

[warvet48]

I am convinced that this Beauchamp created these stories for personal ego trips rather than to pass along truths. Time will tell now. Hopefully the investigative aspects will find him out!

Still the damage is done. Even though TNR doesn't have a broad readership (as mentioned in some other posts) this is starting to branch out wider and wider.
The left must love this Beauchamp and his tales. It's only a matter of time before this really hits MSM.

[warvet48]

For SoldiernolongerinIraq:

What unit were you assigned to? What atrocities did you see (or maybe carried out?). You continually post here as though none of us has ever been to war or seen the things that can happen, but you sound like an MSM troll.
All you do is hint at all the terrible shit that went on, as if it were a daily routine with you and your unit. You're starting to sound like this Beauchamp!
I am a warvet and I've never seen anything like you alude to, oh yes, the horrors of war, but not what you continue to insinuate here.

Either say what you have to say or STFU.

[Al_Maviva]

Man, I wouldn't want to be that kids shorts when the other Pvt. Snuffies in his unit get done with him. I'm not encouraging it, just saying what I think will probably happen. You just don't f*** your buddies like that, and if he was lying (and they will know) then it's one of the all-time great BF's I've ever seen. As an NCO I wouldn't have laid a hand on him; but when I was a Spec4 I would have been buying the engraved invitations to the party.

It puts the command in a tough spot - the smart thing to do would be to isolate him someplace safe, investigate his claims of warcrimes and UCMJ violations, and then either hold him over as a witness (if he was telling the truth - doubtful); or put him up for UCMJ and chapter him out. Either way is risky - leave him in the unit and he's likely to be treated badly, in spite of officers and NCO's warning the other troops about it; take him out and the lefties will view it as retaliation against a noble whistleblower.

[mekan]

I was in the Army during the '80s. This was peace time, but it seemed that every unit I was in has a pseudo intellectual like this guy. The picture Malkin has of this guy on her blog says it all.

I doubt this guy was ever much liked in a combat outfit, and he probably was a complainer. After reading some of his blog (trust me, I deserve hazard pay)I can't see how he was in a combat zone on May 8th.

[warvet48]

If you want to see what Malkin has on this guy (and I suggest you check it out)
go to:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/26/scott-thomas-steps-out-of-the-shadows/

Her page is also linked at the bottom of the other link posted in the stories jump.

[SlimGuy]

By his own words on his blog he has a lot of exposure on the net if he wants to cover his tracks

3. pre-deployment affairs
It looks like we're going afterall, sometime within a couple of months. I'm too haggard right now to wax emotional about it.
I hope everyones doing well, and I'm going to check email, facebook, and myspace as soon as this antiquated computer somes to its senses.

[MICHAEL in MI]

"I thought most of the "analysis" concluded he didn't exist?"

Most of the analysis concluded that what he described did not happen. Some of the analysis speculated that "Scott Thomas" was not a soldier.

But the only "conclusion" to which most milbloggers came was that the events described by "Scott Thomas" did not happen.

[Dusty]

LMAO!

[douglas]

""Looks like some of the milblog analysis as to possible unit was pretty close if not spot on."

I thought most of the "analysis" concluded he didn't exist?

Hilarious."

You must mean like J.D. Johannes, Marine Vet who went to Iraq as a blogger, who had him pegged to the Company level. That's pretty damn spot-on.

He's going back to FOB Falcon in a couple of weeks. I'll take his reports over yours and STBs.

[liontooth]

Ok, so now we know 'the who' in the mess hall. Has the time frame when the incident happened been established? Or the identity of the friend that started mocking the girl? Did TNR ever talk to this friend? Does any woman resemble the girl and do any women at the base or any who have been through the base have any knowledge regarding this? This incident would have made it around the 'chick gossip network'.

Is it gonna turn out that loser boy tried to pick up some chick and after she laughed in his face he created this little fantasy adding the disfigurement?