We now know that, at the very least, the New Republic’s Scott Beauchamp lied about the timing and location of the ridiculing of a disfigured woman in a U.S. mess hall–the incident, if it happened, took place in Kuwait, Beauchamp now says, before he had the opportunity to experience the “morally distorting” effects of war. But the New Republic, for some reason, finds Beauchamp’s new story just as credible as the old one. We continue to have our doubts. Our first letter from Camp Beuhring, Kuwait:
I have been at Camp Buehring for 9 months, and it is the only “staging” and training area for troops going north. I would like to think I am well-tuned to the activity here on camp, but I would be deluding myself if I said I knew everything going on here at Buehring. If Scott Beauchamp came through Kuwait, he came through Buehring, period. If he saw a burned woman here, then I would like to know where she is, because I haven’t seen her in the whole 9 months. That’s not to say she doesn’t exist – she could – but I haven’t seen her, at least not here. Maybe she was visiting from another camp. The chances of him getting off Buehring to go to another camp are very slim, just because of the OPSEC measures and restrictions on travel. Again, not to say it is impossible, just very unlikely.
Let’s hear from Camp Buehring…Can anyone identify the badly disfigured woman described by Beauchamp?
