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Article: The New Republic in denial
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- August 12, 2007
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The New Republic has been running "true war" stories from a brave,
anonymous liberal penning dispatches from Iraq. The famed "Baghdad
Diarist" described his comrades joyfully using Bradley fighting
vehicles to crush stray dogs, mocking a female whose face had been
blown off by an IED and defacing Iraqi corpses by wearing skull parts
on their own heads.
Various conservatives began questioning the plausibility of the
anonymous diarist's account. The editor of The New Republic responded
by attacking the skeptics' motives, complaining that some
conservatives make "a living denying any bad news that emanates from
Iraq."
But when that clever retort failed to quiet rumblings from the
right wing, ...