Swift Boats and Double Standards /Why aren't the media scrutinizing lawyers and advisers to Kerry?

WP ^ | September 1, 2004; Page A19 | Benjamin L. Ginsberg

[Bonaparte]

Let's you and me go for a little ride, BoT. Work with me.

While she was in North Vietnam, she made the following statement (scroll half-way down), only one of many like it.

Her statement, reported widely in the press, as she climbed on to the AA gun that "I wish one of those murdering bastards would fly over right now" reminded an earlier generation of servicemen of the garbage they heard from the mouths of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose during WWII. At least they admitted that they had joined the enemy side.

Read on...

In her "apology" on 20/20 [Aug 1988] she never repudiated any of her statements quoted above. She only said that her actions were "thoughtless and careless" and that she was sorry if it caused the service men and women in Vietnam hurt and pain. Fonda made it crystal clear that she was not repudiating her anti-war activities or feelings. She stated on 20/20 "I feel that those of us who opposed the war, including those who went to Hanoi and brought back documented information about what was going on that wasn't getting out, that we helped to end the war. I AM VERY PROUD OF MOST OF WHAT I DID."

While she was in North Vietnam, she was directly responsible not only for seriously demoralizing our POWs, but for getting many of them beaten, crippled, maimed, killed.

She has blood on her hands, more than she can wash away with even a thousand self-serving apologies. Note: At the time she appeared on 20/20, she was in the midst of an effort to boost her film career. Also, her husband, the radical Tom Hayden, was trying to sanitize his image in the interests of his political ambitions. At the time, this was Reagan's America.

If you read Aid And Comfort: Jane Fonda In North Vietnam, you will realize what a monster this woman is. The author, a VN combat vet and law professor, not only details many of her outrages against our troops and POWs over there, but builds an airtight legal case for her prosecution, conviction and execution as a traitor to her country.

(I believe bookfinder.com has copies of this for a few dollars.)

It's truly a shame that Nixon and a cynical, complacent Congress swept this matter under the rug, permitting Hanoi Jane to elude justice.

So what else has Fonda done to make things right with these vets and their families, besides periodically issue another tepid "apology"? Nothing. This "born again Christian" is far too busy advocating such "worthy" causes as the slaughter of the unborn and the denigration of rural Georgians (something Governor Zell Miller publicly castigated her for, extracting another of her famous "apologies").

Read the book and you'll forget about going easy on this murderous traitor. Like me, your blood will boil everytime you hear her name.