Has TNR Been Duped? Remember that Baghdad Diarist I quoted extensively a few days ago? The one talking about how his fellow soldier had become so dehumanized by war that he had taken to running over dogs?

Well, there have apparently been so many questions raised about the veracity of the column that the New Republic is checking to make sure it isn't a fake. A Weekly Standard blogger first called them out on it.

One military commenter writes on the Standard website: I'm not Pollyana, and ugly things happen. But my trial lawyer and my colonel BS detectors are both flashing red. To believe this crap, you have to want it to be true.

Or fear them to be true....

The New Republic says the criticisms are ideologically motivated. We'll see what happens.  ¶ 6:23 AM