One question, and one question only:

Does this apparent vindication of Beauchamp now go down the memory hole? Or will we actually see something about it in, say, The Librul New York Times?

(And... is that, technically, two questions? Does this now make it four? :-)

Goldfarb was wrong for the right reasons and those who belived Beauchamp were damn hippies (who are always wrong by default) who were right for the wrong reasons. Furthermore they had no way of knowing that they were right at the the time.

So Goldfarb was right in his believe and the hippies were wrong!

And up is down, dammit!

This crime can be laid directly at the feet of Bush and Cheney. This man never should have been put in a position to do this crime in the first place.

"The Generals sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side."

This is a chilling story. Will we hear from Goldfarb on this? Put yourself in his shoes....one of your primary sources for disputing the idea of bad actors among the US military turns out to be the more than a bad actor, he turns out to be a mini Pol Pot.

If Goldfarb has any credibility, hell, any decency, he would take his hat in hand and address this disgrace.

If he goes right on pushing his agenda by whatever means necessary, as I suspect he will, then I guess the GOP is further gone than I thought. And I think they are pretty far gone. Just yesterday I heard Gov. Perry talking secession and Tom Delay sputtering to defend the idea. So yeah, they were already looking prety bad.

At this rate it's going to be more than a long cold Winter for the GOP, its going to be a long, cold Generation.

One wonders if shooting handcuffed prisoners in the back of the head was not previously screened as a potential interrogation technique by the Office of Legal Counsel.

Weekly Standard should admit that these lives might have been saved if they had actually investigated the story.

Just pointing out that this is not really a "breaking," but an ongoing saga. From the Times article yesterday:

other senior members of his unit — Company A, First Battalion, First Infantry Division — were also convicted of killing some of the men.

In February, another military jury convicted the unit’s medic, Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr., 28, of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison. On March 30, Sgt. First Class Joseph P. Mayo, 27, pleaded guilty to murder and received a 35-year sentence.

I find that people in general, including blogosphere left, center and right, haven't had much interest in anything to do with Iraq for many moons now, much less secondary stories about vindicated claims, i.e., yesterday's Iraq stories. The same reporter did this lengthier story in August when he managed to get statements and other court documents were provided by a person close to one of the soldiers in the unit who insisted on anonymity and who has an interest in the outcome of the legal proceedings when the blogosphere was busy with the daily "news" details of how Obama hates Hillary and vice versa.

The behavior Beauchamp described, laughing at a handicapped person and shooting dogs, is so benign compared to shooting people in the back as to be laughable.

I haven't recovered from my disgust with the behavior of The New Republic in pretending that all American soldiers behaved like officers and gentlemen during wartime and tossing Beauchamp to the wolves. I have been checking their website for a response to today's news. So far, nothing.