More snow! Better late than never. I`m happy.

Around 1100 Dutch peacekeeping soldiers are in southern Iraq.
They have a difficult job. It`s difficult in many ways.
On December 27 soldier Eric saw a looting Iraqi human. He fired a warning shot.
But the bullet ricochetted off a wall and killed the looter.
Soldier Eric was arrested by Dutch MP`s, flown home, and put in jail.
And now our chief justice wants to bring soldier Eric to trial because Dutch military instructions
`didn`t authorize him to fire his gun in a looting situation`.
It`s brought on a national debate.
How can soldiers keep the peace with their hands tied.
With shame everybody in my country remembers another Dutch UN peace mission, in 1995
in Srebrenica, Bosnia. An army of Serb militia captured the city,
took 7.000 male Muslem humans to the hills and killed them.
The Dutch peace soldiers did nothing to stop them,
they had instructions not to use their weapons...

Let`s all keep our paws crossed for soldier Eric today!