Brinkley Details Kerry's Meetings with 'Hanoi Jane' (Hanoi John and Jane are both liars!)

Newsmax ^ | 2/15/04

[areafiftyone]

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley revealed Sunday that Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry personally met with "Hanoi Jane" Fonda at least twice during the days when the two played leading roles in the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, including a never before detailed 1971 meeting in Detroit.

"The Jane Fonda incidents occurred in two places; one on a march from Morristown to Valley Forge when they shared a platform at Valley Forge," Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg.

"Then he met her in the more troubling Detroit Howard Johnson's Comfort Center [event], where there was this thing called the Winter Soldier Investigation."

It had been known that Fonda and Kerry had both helped organize the Winter Soldier protest at a time when he served as the VVAW's National Coordinator and she held the title Honorary National Coordinator.

But Brinkley, who wrote the definitive chronicle of Kerry's war years, "Tour of Duty," is the first authoritative source to suggest that Kerry and Fonda had a face-to-face meeting while organizing the event.

Brinkley's account of Kerry's contacts with Fonda suggests they had a much more extensive relationship than either of them are now willing to admit.

The activist and the top Democrat both offered accounts last week that minimized their contact during the 1970s, with Fonda describing efforts to link her to Kerry as part of a "big lie" campaign to discredit the presidential front-runner.

Of the Valley Forge protest, Fonda told CNN, "I don't know if we even shook hands."

For his part Kerry said through a spokeswoman, "John Kerry and Jane Fonda were just acquaintances."

During Winter Soldier Fonda and Kerry solicited testimony from alleged combat veterans detailing U.S. atrocities, though many of the accounts were later completely discredited.

The Kerry campaign has refused to return multiple phone calls from NewsMax requesting details of the Senator's interaction with Fonda during the Feb. 1971 Winter Soldier event.

On a related subject, Brinkley said that Kerry's Vietnam war wounds, for which he received three Purple Hearts, were not particularly serious.

Asked about the severity of Kerry's injuries, Brinkley told Malzberg, "They were minor wounds."

[Beck_isright]

So what. Unless it's GWB missing 10 minutes of Guard duty to take a dump, the media could care less.

[areafiftyone]

Unless it's GWB missing 10 minutes of Guard duty to take a dump, the media could care less.

I have to agree with you on that.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Either you didn't read my post, couldn't read my post, or didn't want to read my post.

I said the medals should be a non-issue. Blood spilled is blood lost. Period.

But you don't know who you're posting to or anyone's age. Nor do any of us.

"We said the real reason (for Iraq) was about oil and the profits..."

And that's why you are wrong now. We are in Iraq to prevent another 9/11.

Back in the '70's, I never did understand why we were in Viet Nam.

McNamara has a hard time articulating any reason for it even now.

[Destro]

Really? Bush family stayed at the Bin Laden compound before 9/11. Kerry was seen with Fonda before she wentt o Hanoi and became Hanoi Jane. So tell me why it is not the same? Guilt by association before the dirty deed was done?

[Beck_isright]

Sad isn't it. No one here has learned a lesson. The media can not be trusted. None of it. Not even FNC.

[areafiftyone]

I don't think this should be about the Vietnam war either, but Kerry has chosen it to be be by constantly bringing up his Vietnam service, and also by comparing it to and making fun of Bush's guard service. Kerry is not a humble human being and because of his ego he has thrown this into a full fledged compare and contrast contest on military service. The media has not helped by throwing the AWOL issue out there and comparing it to Kerry's service every single day.

[Destro]

Should we have helped any nation against the communists? Yes- I liked Ike's and JFK's approach of helping the South's armies with advisors and airforce. The same approach we used in Afghanistan which sadly is not the one we used in Iraq. Seeing how easily the Iraqi army gave up the ghost - that is even criminal we did not.

[Destro]

Damn right. I won't be a bootlicker for anyone.

[Destro]

1971 Photo of Kerry Doctored
The Orginal Photo

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I love a good conspiracy theory. But sometimes I worry guys like you are put out there to destroy every real question mark in history by lumping everything into one, big conspiracy pile and setting it on fire.

The Bush/Bin Laden cross-overs are called "control and containment."

Unfortunately, sometimes there really is a Ghost in the Machine.

Americans don't kill Americans, and American interests didn't destroy Nelson and David. How hard is that to figure out?

Something else is going on.

[moehoward]

bump

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Ping to above. You guys need new literary pen names.

Wonder who I pinged?