Matthews: Kerry Has 'Hanoi Jane' Problem

Newsmax.com ^ | 2/10/-4 | Carl Limbacher

[Wphile]

Kerry is classic clinton. He goes whereever the popular winds are blowing him. He's the guy who says, "tell me what you what and I'll lead you there." He doesn't have anything original and his voting record and twisted logic make it plain as day that he is a politically expedient politician and nothing more. The guy makes me sick.

[Lexington Green]

I think a good ad would be of Kerry saying, as he did a few weeks ago, that the Republicans are exaggerating the war on terror. With the WTC in the background.


That's a good one. I envision an ad showing President Kerry calling Kofi Annan and asking permission to defend our country.

Another good ad is to show split-screen photos of Bush and Kerry... text over: WHO WOULD OSAMMA VOTE FOR?

[Redleg Duke]

So what elite military organization did Mathews serve with in Nam?

[jpl]

We don't need any silly photo, we have his on-the-record testimony of him slandering his former comrades in arms, which is more than sufficient to get the point across.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I see Kerry stumping in front of a lot of firefighters.

I was having dinner at the local firehouse a couple of weeks ago, when a Jane Fonda movie came on the tv. The ladder captain immediately went off, yelling that "no way are we watching any $#!$%%@@ Jane Fonda movie!"

He's a nam vet, and so are a bunch of the older guys. I hope this hurts Kerry, badly.

[Ann Archy]

Chrissy will be kissing Kerry's rear end by next week......he makes me ill.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Image made by freeper mikeb704.

[Eva]

I think that Kerry's Hanoi Jane problem may be worse than that. I have heard that Kerry was still in the Navy at the time of the photo.

[mewzilla]

That's a GOOD one...

[Hon]

"Well...does this, then, authenticate Kerry actually being in the crowd ?"

There is plenty of documentation that Kerry was a speaker at the event. Fonda praised him. He was called their "ragtag commander."

I have to say that it is maddening that nobody can be bothered to read anything. All they do is look at the photo. The story that goes with it is much more damning--but neither Newsmax, nor Limbaugh, nor Hannity can be bothered to actually read the information. (And, sadly, it's true of the majority of the posters here.)

John Kerry At Valley Forge (With Jane Fonda)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074369/posts

[Salvation]

Check out this thread for additional pictures.

What You Don't Know about John Kerry

[BushisTheMan]

I received this some time back in an e-mail. Included with it was the same photo of Hanoi Jane with Communists/North Vietnamese at with their helmet that you posted.

KEEP THIS MOVING; ACROSS AMERICA HONORING A TRAITOR

This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.

The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison-the "Hanoi Hilton." Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "Peace Activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away.

During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton. From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hilton"- the first three of which he was "missing in action". His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.

They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, w! ith his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.

She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions that day.

I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a "black box" in Ha! noi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.

At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as "humane and lenient." Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till my arms dipped.

I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was released. I asked her i! f she would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer me.

This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget..."100 years of great women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them.

Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget.

[JoJo Gunn]

"I have to say that it is maddening that nobody can be bothered to read anything.....

How rude.

[LS]

People, can we all get this straight: VIETNAM isn't going to be the issue, one way or the other in this election. KERRY'S record there, good or bad, is simply not going to resonate. Bush's National Guard service isn't going to resonate.

This election is about now and about the future, and the first side that really figures that out will have the advantage. And, as usual, Chrissy is wrong.

[Krodg]

From your link

Some 150 sweat-soaked members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ended their three-day trek at Valley Forge, Pa., on Sept. 7, 1970. Huddled around a flatbed truck, they listened to remarks by Jane Fonda and a reading from Donald Sutherland.

Between the main acts came a floppy-haired former Navy lieutenant who had won a fistful of medals on the bloody canals of the Mekong Delta. Tall and self-assured, 27-year-old Yale graduate John Kerry read from a rumpled sheaf of papers in the ringing voice that had commanded men on gunships.

Condemning the tactics and morality of the war, Kerry was "brilliant," Fonda says today. He looked like Abe Lincoln and sounded like John F. Kennedy. "He was our ragtag commander at Valley Forge," says veterans organizer Joe Bangert.

http://www.azstudents.com/about_kerry.html

The folks at the DUmp are trying to dismiss the photo because he couldn't have known in 1970 (date of photo) that she would go to Viet Nam in 1972. What they can't seem to comprehend, is that it was Kerry who inspired Fonda.

[Milligan]

Birds of a feather, stay together.
I'm wondering?
Could Karry find a different way to protest the war without resorting to bad mouthing the troops who were still serving over there? And to stay away from sympathizing with the Communist North Vietnam?

[Milligan]

We need a better picture with Hanoi Jane and Scary Kerry together. The Dems will say thats not him because this man has bucked teeth.

[OldCorps]

great bumper sticker. Its up there with "Commie Bore" from the '94 and '98 elections.