What is the Difference Between Kerry and Beauchamp?

What’s the difference between John Kerry and his Winter Soldier accusations and Scott Thomas Beauchamp and his Baghdad Diarist (cached) accusations?

Both of them were shown to be false.

Yet John Kerry went on to become a United States Senator and a nominee for the office of President of the United States.  It looks like Pvt. Beauchamp will just serve out his term in the army and then disappear. 

I’ll tell you the difference.  John Kerry is an elite liberal.  Beauchamp is just a slacker liberal. 

John Kerry went to Yale, met with Hubert Humphrey and went from strength to strength.  He knew how to play politics and how to keep his nerve when peddling utterly false propaganda about US atrocities in Vietnam.

Scott Thomas Beauchamp was just a kid from St. Louis with a fantasy about being the next Hemingway.  He just didn’t know how to play the game of liberal politics.

Anyway, while the New Republic is obviously in full coverup mode, it looks like the Army is looking after its own.  Michael Yon happened to meet Beauchamp’s commanding officer, LTC George Glaze, in Iraq.

LTC Glaze seemed protective of Beauchamp, despite how the young soldier had maligned his fellow soldiers. In fact, the commander said Beauchamp, having learned his lesson, was given the chance to leave or stay.
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But to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and he is serving tonight in a dangerous part of Baghdad. He might well be seriously injured or killed here, and he knows it. He could have quit, but he did not. He faced his peers. I can only imagine the cold shoulders, and worse, he must have gotten. He could have left the unit, but LTC Glaze told me that Beauchamp wanted to stay and make it right. Whatever price he has to pay, he is paying it.

Almost brings a tear to your eye.  We can hope, after it’s all over, that Scott Thomas Beauchamp won’t be a liberal.  He deserves better.