davidp
2007-10-25 19:03:01
“as much as I think he can without setting himself up to be sued for fraud by TNR”
This is a very good point – TNR suing must be a worry for him, contributing to his refusal to comment, especially given the various pressures they were applying to him during that conversation. He needs his own lawyer, not one supplied by TNR.
Thom and OmegaPaladin: The Mahmoudiya murders were real and horrible. Beauchamp’s fiction presented misbehaviour tolerated by leadership and other soldiers – a slander on the whole group. Individuals and small groups going wrong is almost inevitable. Good leadership detects and punishes that. The US forces in Iraq appear to generally have good leadership.
