Jane Fonda Regrets 1972 Visit to Vietnam Gun Site

Reuters ^ | 3/31/05

[Crackingham]

Jane Fonda regrets her visit to a North Vietnamese gun site in 1972, the actress and fitness guru said in an interview with CBS television show "60 Minutes" to be aired on Sunday.

The actress defended her trip to Vietnam in 1972, which won her the nickname "Hanoi Jane." But she said her visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site used to shoot down U.S. pilots was a "betrayal" of the U.S. military.

"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal," she said, calling the act, "The largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."

But she said she did not regret visiting Hanoi, or being photographed with American prisoners of war there.

"There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs," she said. "Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. ... It's not something that I will apologize for."

[Feiny]

Another case of too little, too late.

[secret garden]

Does she regret giving the note from McCain and the other POWS to their captors?

[drt1]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374757/posts

[ASA Vet]

I'll forgive her treason in about 50 more years.

[NRA1995]

"Hanoi Jane" is not a strong enough term to express my contempt for her.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I hope to live long enough to urinate on her headstone.

[PaRebel]

way, way, way too late. Buhbaaaiiieee.

[clamper1797]

too little, too late.

Yes it is too little too late BUT at least she admits she was wrong ... better than that F'n kerry a_hole has done

[momf]

We used to see all of her movies, etc. until then.

Wonder what she wants. Or is planning.

[Paradox]

She did not pass on a note, that is an urban legend. What she did do is bad enough.

[Stellar Dendrite]

STFU Hanoi Jane!!!

"I would think that if you understood what communism was you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists." - Hanoi Jane (Fonda).

[Nam Vet]

Jam it up yer a$$ Janie.

Nam Vet

[Logic n' Reason]

I had just returned from my second tour of duty in SEA when she got there.

I will never forget; I will never forgive.

[BillF]

Way too little, way too late.

[Mr. K]

I read (Gary Aldrich's book??) that when one of Clintoon's top goons (Leon Pineeta ??) got married they exchenged rings made out of metal from a downed American fighter jet from Viet Nam.

Sorry for all the uncertainty- I know I read it, I just am not positive about who it was.

I would have thought this would be headline news...

[aynrandfreak]

At least the old time lefties were more honest about their hatred of America and our military.

[bigsigh]

for your poenance STFU for another 20 years.

[proust]

and she just happens to have a new movie coming out, whatta coincedence!

[Billthedrill]

It's sort of like the kid who kills his little brother and then torches the entire house standing there and saying "Well, I said I'm sorry." It doesn't quite cover it.