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Jane Fonda on Vietnam War comments: 'I made a huge, huge mistake'
Stars and Stripes ^ | 2/19/15 | Jones

Posted on 02/19/2015 7:40:56 AM PST by pabianice

Jane Fonda said she hoped for an open dialogue with veterans after about 50 former military members and supporters protested the actress’s appearance Friday evening at the Weinberg Center for the Arts.

“Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad,” Fonda told a relatively full theater, responding to a submitted question. “It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers.”

In 1972 Fonda visited Hanoi, North Vietnam, where she criticized attacks on the dike system along the Red River. A U.S. investigation later revealed the publicity of these bombings as propaganda. Fonda’s statements and a photograph of her sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery outraged many Americans and veterans, leading many to call her “Hanoi Jane” and a “traitor.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hanoi; hanoijane; janefonda; northvietnam; traitor; treason; vietnam; vietnamwar
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1 posted on 02/19/2015 7:40:56 AM PST by pabianice
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She did more than that. I believe she took a note that was put in the palm of her hand from one of the prisoners and gave it to the guards.

If that is true, then she’s directly responsible for what happened to that soldier as a result of that act.


2 posted on 02/19/2015 7:43:55 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: pabianice

Kerry is Secretary of State. In this administration she could be Secretary of Defense.


3 posted on 02/19/2015 7:44:54 AM PST by marron
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I made a huge huge mistake...? You bet your sweet ass, Douche Bag!
4 posted on 02/19/2015 7:45:20 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: pabianice

They gave you the clap doing your commie gang bang, didn’t they—you unsightly maggot and traitor.


5 posted on 02/19/2015 7:45:39 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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Too Late now Baby


6 posted on 02/19/2015 7:45:52 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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She’s still in denial and trying to make herself the victim.


7 posted on 02/19/2015 7:45:52 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: pabianice

There’s no statute of limitations on treason.


8 posted on 02/19/2015 7:46:05 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: pabianice

She has tried to smooth this over by acknowledging the appearance of evil. She has never acknowledged evil.


9 posted on 02/19/2015 7:46:15 AM PST by marron
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Treason is forever Hanoi Jane.


10 posted on 02/19/2015 7:46:56 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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I’m not fonda Jane.


11 posted on 02/19/2015 7:47:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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She’d better pray that her final resting place is kept secret.
There’s not enough beer in Milwaukee...


12 posted on 02/19/2015 7:48:23 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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Consequences can be a beotch, so are you.


13 posted on 02/19/2015 7:48:52 AM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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14 posted on 02/19/2015 7:49:11 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

She should be buried next to WT Sherman, save us a lot of travel time.


15 posted on 02/19/2015 7:49:26 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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It hurts me and it will to my grave

Then I hope you find short lived comfort soon, just before you are consumed.

16 posted on 02/19/2015 7:49:28 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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jane fonda photo: Jane Fonda Admiring an NVA gun crew JaneFondaLovesTheNVA.jpg

What could possibly make a lot of people think you were against the soldiers?

17 posted on 02/19/2015 7:49:53 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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Even though she’s supposedly great talent as an actress, she has never even pretended to offer a truly contrite, remorseful apology.


18 posted on 02/19/2015 7:50:01 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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I can forgive but not forget. Yes we carry our mistakes to our graves, then God will judge. God himself will not forgive those who are unwilling to forgive others.


19 posted on 02/19/2015 7:52:50 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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She’s an absolutely filthy piece of celebrity scum who should’ve been shot by a firing squad many, many years ago.

I am so sick of hearing her rear her botoxed head every few years to try to “make nice” about her disgusting, traitorous, and deadly behavior many years ago.

God, I wish she’d shut up, and just wrinkle away.


20 posted on 02/19/2015 7:53:24 AM PST by laweeks
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