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"Scott Thomas," the soldier who, as Baghdad diarist for The New Republic, reported gross and inhumane behavior committed by American troops in Iraq, has a surname: His name is Scott Thomas Beauchamp. That may be about all he has when the dust settles. Challenged on numerous improbabilities (can you hotrod over stray dogs in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle?) TNR did belated fact-checking and admitted that one anecdote--mocking a woman disfigured by an IED--happened, not at Beauchamp's Iraq base, but pre-deployment in Kuwait: not a minor change in a story meant to show the dehumanizing effects of war. Now the Army says ...