Yet another "phony soldier"? (**Updated**)

lt seems that yet another toast of the left, New Republic's Scott Beauchamp (a/k/a "Baghdad Diarist"), whose tales of malfiesance of our brave men and women in Iraq have become the stuff of propaganda by leftists and terrorists alike, has been proven to be a fraud:

Drudge has the story.

According to a July article in the WaPo:

The New Republic's anonymous "Baghdad Diarist" identified himself yesterday as Scott Thomas Beauchamp, an Army private in Iraq, and disputed as "maddening" accusations that he had invented his accounts of cruelty by American soldiers.

Curiously, Beauchamp's articles are missing, and you can hear crickets chirp at the TNR website.

What is "maddening" is that the charade has been allowed to continue without a peep from the leftist elements at The New Republic, who didn't think twice about publishing false tripe that fit their "soldiers as baby killers" template.

Should I hold my breath for some retractions?

How bout an apology?

I didn't think so.

****UPDATE*****

James Robbins at NRO has more.