Two Links
A couple of interesting stories for your reading pleasure this Wednesday:
- David Axe over at War Is Boring is writing eloquently on his time with Dutch and Australian troops in Afghanistan. Plus, his firsthand accounts are often posted before any major papers pick up the stories. There are a number of posts — at least one each day — from his trip. Check out all of them.
- Left in Alabama looks at another measure of President Bush’s popularity: the falling price of getting an autographed photo of him:
- 2004 $25,000
- 2006 $10,000
- May 2007, New Jersey $5000
- June 15th, 2007 Wichita, Kansas $4600
- What will they get in Mobile?
21. June, 2007 at 09:10
[…] David Axe, reporting from Baghdad on his blog (as I noted yesterday), discusses the opposition in the Netherlands to keeping Dutch troops in Afghanistan. At Kamp Holland, the Dutch base in southern Afghanistan, the troops are mourning the loss of a second soldier: 44-year-old Sergeant Major Jos Leunissen, who died in a mortar accident during combat with Taliban forces around the town of Chura on Monday. […]