Posted on 07/22/2011 11:01:03 PM PDT by Keltik
It is unconscionable that extremist groups circulate letters which accuse me of horrific things, saying that I am a traitor, that POWs in Hanoi were tied up and in chains and marched passed me while I spat at them and called them ‘baby killers. These letters also say that when the POWs were brought into the room for a meeting I had with them, we shook hands and they passed me tiny slips of paper on which they had written their social security numbers. Supposedly, this was so that I could bring back proof to the U.S. military that they were alive. The story goes on to say that I handed these slips of paper over to the North Vietnamese guards and, as a result, at least one of the men was tortured to death.
That these stories could be given credence shows how little people know of the realities in North Vietnam prisons at the time. The U.S. government and the POW families didn’t need me to tell them who the prisoners were. They had all their names. Moreover, according to even the most hardcore senior officers, torture stopped late in 1969, two and a half years before I got there. And, most importantly, I would never say such things to our servicemen, whom I respect, whether or not I agree with the mission they have been sent to perform, which is not of their choosing.
But these lies have circulated for almost forty years, continually reopening the wound of the Vietnam War and causing pain to families of American servicemen. The lies distort the truth of why I went to North Vietnam and they perpetuate the myth that being anti-war means being anti-soldier.
(Excerpt) Read more at janefonda.com ...
Jane’s only regret is that the pics did not go the way she hoped her communist propaganda would. This bitch can rot in hell and it would be much too gentle for her. She was, is, and always will be a treacherous commie traitor. Like Obama she knows nothing about the American people or the meaning of Americanism, she detests the very existence of America.
Cry me a river, Jane.
I know she’s still at it today.
I’m not giving her a pass, and hope she gets all that’s coming to her.
She wants to make money now, and she’s having a hard time doing that. What goes around, comes around.
BTW, my husband is a Viet Nam vet, and I watched all of this first hand.
I take her statement literally, and strongly doubt she's walked it back even a little bit.
In my old-school view, communism is Stalin's starvations and purges, Mao's tens of millions of murders, Pol Pot's two million, Castro's hundred thousand, and the Kim regime's decades of luxury for the czar and starvation for the people.
She understands she is of an elite who will never have to live by the codes it prescribes--such is the privilege of the vanguard.
She is from a famous acting family, she had already won an Oscar, her father had won an Oscar, her brother’s movie had been nominated for Oscars, she was born into the media and publicity, she was not some naive victim that did not understand photo ops and publicity, and star power, etc.
The Oscar winning actress traveled to the country we were at war with, she was a media expert, and dedicated.
The act actually helped advance her career in Hollywood.
Useful idiot or not,you provided aid and comfort to the enemy.
She was 35, and had been rich, powerful, and a celebrity all of her life, she was already an Oscar winning actress at age 35 with a huge acting career behind her and her family.
“What’s the most painful prolonged form of cancer? That’s what I hope she gets.”
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I have a hard time bringing myself to wish cancer or any debilitating or terminal disease upon anyone. But as I’ve said many times, we all have to pay for the things we have done wrong in our lives — either in this life or in the next one.
And despite her wealth and fame, I don’t know that she has had a really happy life. She’s had two failed marriages that I know of and there could be a lot of other things in her life that have not gone so well. Misery in this life may be the payback for what she has done.
She might have redeemed herself a bit if she had apologized for what she had done. But I don’t see anything by way of an apology here. More like justification. Might work for young people who don’t remember Vietnam. For the rest of us old enough to remember (and those who actually served and perhaps suffered as POWs), her “explanation” is not good enough.
I’ve been saying that for 40 years!
Bullshit, Jane, and you know it.
We still don't know who all the POWs were, and we likely never will.
If you are going to tell kids Fairy Tales, you should at least begin with "Once upon a time..."
NOT FONDA JANE, THIS ONE FOR TONKIN and myself. 67,68
She was young and ignorant of how this would be portrayed, and she’s paid a price for it.
That isn't true at all, why would you try and push that BS?
Jane Fonda was almost a middle aged actress at age 35 with an Oscar under her belt, her father was Oscar winning actor Henry Fonda, her brother Peter Fonda.
Jane Fonda knew the media as few humans do, and no one accidentally, ended up manning North Vietnamese, anti-aircraft guns while they were killing us.
So what is your point?
Tell her to make her confession to a priest, but it requires real contrition, not the phony Hollywood hype.
She has done enough damage, just go away.
No problem, I can't read Vietnamese anyway!
Lower right corner of picture. Man without helmet on.
Sorry Jane, you got caught in a lie...again.
Forgot quote
“It was not unusual for Americans who visited North Vietnam to be taken to see Vietnamese military installations and when they did, they were always required to wear a helmet like the kind I was told to wear during the numerous air raids I had experienced”
“And despite her wealth and fame, I don’t know that she has had a really happy life.”
Jane Fonda’s mother committed suicide when Jane was 12 years old.
The one behind her also,good catch.
Come on, she was just an innocent 32 year old babe who just got caught up in all the excitement. It was an honest mistake!/s
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