tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post840560228313422706..comments2023-10-21T16:25:58.899+01:00Comments on Three Score Years And Ten: US War Department Does Well In IraqHarry Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01600933854461096745noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-34093827499851768302007-12-15T00:46:00.000+00:002007-12-15T00:46:00.000+00:00Well, let's see what a guide to the US written in ...Well, let's see what a guide to the US written in 1943 would tell people:<BR/><BR/>1. Black people are separate from everyone else. Do not socialize with them. Do not use public facilities that are marked "colored." <BR/><BR/>2. Women do not work outside the home except as secretaries, school teachers, and prostitutes.<BR/><BR/>3. ________ (fill in your own)<BR/><BR/>Yep, the Bush Admin should have dusted that 60-year-old tome off and given it to every soldier. My my, hindsight is 20/20.Odysseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03078181678195829658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-57732687346761525032007-11-10T09:40:00.000+00:002007-11-10T09:40:00.000+00:00Mrs K;It is great when you are a retired politico,...Mrs K;<BR/><BR/>It is great when you are a retired politico, you can pursue your interests without all those past pressures, commitments and side issues.Harry Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01833380054575757928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-87829591584501467842007-11-08T10:59:00.000+00:002007-11-08T10:59:00.000+00:00Did it and copied him your blog item.Thank you - I...Did it and copied him your blog item.<BR/><BR/>Thank you - I am learning more everyday - thought I would stop once I retired.mrs khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05293272720118841380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-88442949932203609842007-11-06T20:04:00.000+00:002007-11-06T20:04:00.000+00:00Mrs K;An MP could seek to discover whether anythin...Mrs K;<BR/>An MP could seek to discover whether anything similar to the US advice booklet is issued to our own troops. If so the MP might be able to get their hands on a copy to check its value. If none has been issued, they can then press for a version to be prepared, published and issued.<BR/><BR/>To find out what (if anything)<BR/>has been done they can either (a) ask the Commons' Library to find it out for them. This is a facility open to MPs only. Or (b)they can ask the Minister of Defence via a Parliamentary Question - either an oral question (which will only appear if the MP won a sort of lottery around the time Defence Questions crop up) or a question which will receive a written answer. Successful orals and all written questions (and the answers) get published in Hansard.<BR/><BR/>If there is then a need to raise the matter further either in oral or written form, then MP's have a number of dodges open to them.<BR/><BR/>The subject matter should just be right for Dave. And he knows the openings well.<BR/><BR/>I am sending our Natascha Engel a copy of this thread also, to see what she can do.Harry Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01833380054575757928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-85898948128551068312007-11-05T23:46:00.000+00:002007-11-05T23:46:00.000+00:00HarryTell me what to say and I will contact my MP ...Harry<BR/><BR/>Tell me what to say and I will contact my MP (Dave Anderson) as well.mrs khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05293272720118841380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-7354601765069972022007-11-05T11:19:00.000+00:002007-11-05T11:19:00.000+00:00Mrs K ; I will ask my MP to get onto this.Mrs K ; I will ask my MP to get onto this.Harry Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01833380054575757928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-582361155813324782007-11-05T11:18:00.000+00:002007-11-05T11:18:00.000+00:00Mrs K ; I will ask my MP to get onto this.Mrs K ; I will ask my MP to get onto this.Harry Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01833380054575757928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-3518523321297487182007-11-05T00:03:00.000+00:002007-11-05T00:03:00.000+00:00Pity they were not updating it and giving it out f...Pity they were not updating it and giving it out free to the troops currently out there and most liley to be there for sometime in the future.<BR/><BR/>Maybe we should all email the Whitehouse and Downing St again.mrs khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05293272720118841380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31588679.post-78414114363440508412007-11-03T10:01:00.000+00:002007-11-03T10:01:00.000+00:00Brilliant Harry ! Keep up the good work.Brilliant Harry ! Keep up the good work.Andy Howellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12985163646974078973noreply@blogger.com