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See Jane's magical mystery tour - (Fonda's vegetable oil anti-Iraq war bus tour..Vietnam Redux!)
TOWNHALL.COM ^ | JULY 27, 2005 | KATHLEEN PARKER

Posted on 07/27/2005 8:12:08 PM PDT by CHARLITE

Like millions of Americans, I heaved a sigh of relief upon reading that Jane Fonda finally is going to speak out against the war in Iraq. Where has she been?

On book tour promoting her autobiography-in-progress, "My Life So Far." We might have guessed a real-time sequel was in the offing.


Fonda says that, having met some veterans and their families while on tour, she's decided to break her silence. "I've decided I'm coming out," she told an audience in Santa Fe, N.M. "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam. I carry a lot of baggage from that."

That baggage includes the now infamous photo of Fonda in 1972 sitting atop a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun while on a tour of that country. Many Vietnam vets do not forgive Fonda for what they view as treason and for making their lives harder, especially prisoners of war who were tortured in her name. To her limited credit, Fonda has apologized.

Still, her newest foray into antiwar territory feels like a cartoonish parody of her former self. Jane Fonda playing Jane Fonda. In her newest version of Me, Myself and I, Fonda will segue from book tour to antiwar tour via a cross-country trip on a bus that runs on vegetable oil. Slick. But is it canola?

Fonda is mum on details but promises "it's going to be pretty exciting." One can hardly wait. Suddenly, I find myself dreaming of a time when the Rolling Stones do not do one more tour, and Jane Fonda does not find her groove again.

Ending the war is surely the goal of any sane person, but what precisely would Jane Fonda and others against the war have us do? Withdrawing now isn't an option. Losing the war isn't an option. Handing Iraq to terrorists isn't an option. Even those opposed to invading Iraq concede that much.

So what is the point of an antiwar, vegetable oil bus tour? After this trip, Fonda may need a small island to accommodate the baggage she'll accrue.

Meanwhile, there is serious work to do in Iraq, especially as a new constitution is being crafted, the success of which will hasten our ability to withdraw successfully. If Fonda and other celebrities want to attach their names to something constructive, they might join the Independent Women's Forum (iwf.org) in trying to advance the status of women in Iraq and, ultimately, throughout the Middle East.

IWF members meet regularly with Iraqi women, both in the U.S. and abroad, to teach them the principles of democracy and equal rights. Their critically important work is based on the understanding that democracy and freedom are the antidote to terrorism, and that women's (and other minority) rights are fundamental to the ultimate cure.

At this precarious moment, as terrorists gain momentum from successful hits in Britain, Lebanon, Egypt and elsewhere, Iraq's working-draft constitution leaves much to be desired. Of greatest concern is a section that leaves personal matters - marriage, divorce and inheritance - to whatever religious law is practiced by the family's sect.

Women are equal, in other words, as long as their rights don't violate Shariah, or Koranic law. What this could mean for Iraqi women is on vivid display in places where Islamic law rules.

A few days ago, for example, a woman in an Indian village who was raped by her father-in-law was forced to nullify her marriage, marry the rapist, and act as mother to her former husband. This mind-numbing fatwa was issued by South Asia's most powerful theological school, according to The Washington Times.

Before the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi men and women were almost equal. Except for those chosen especially for rape by Saddam's sons and their henchmen, women faced only the same tortures as men. Now, they may face diminished status under a constitution that, as proposed, contradicts democratic principles of equality and freedom.

The Iraqi parliament has until Aug. 15 to adopt a draft constitution, which then faces a nationwide referendum by mid-October. If the women lose, we all lose.

Now there's a cause for feminists and Fondas alike. If we want to end the war in Iraq, a sound, woman-friendly constitution is at least part of the answer. To that end, Michelle Bernard, the IWF senior vice president who runs the democratic outreach program to Iraqi women, says she'd be happy to accept Fonda's check.


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KEYWORDS: 2006; antiiraqwar; antimilitary; booktour; bustour; janefonda; march; memories; mylifesofar; vegetableoil; vietnam
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1 posted on 07/27/2005 8:12:10 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: CHARLITE

That's Wessonality...


2 posted on 07/27/2005 8:13:07 PM PDT by baltodog (R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; tet68; Nam Vet; ThreePuttinDude; Beth528; SMARTY; CyberAnt; nothingnew; ..
Fonda alert!

Char

3 posted on 07/27/2005 8:13:55 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
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To: CHARLITE

What does she use on her skin?

Oil Of Old Age?


5 posted on 07/27/2005 8:14:48 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: CHARLITE

Excellant post. Says it all.


6 posted on 07/27/2005 8:15:17 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9-11!)
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To: CHARLITE
"I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam. I carry a lot of baggage from that."

Yeah. We can see it in your eyes. Errrr...I mean under your eyes.

7 posted on 07/27/2005 8:15:26 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If we're The Religious Right, does that make them The Godless Left? Discuss.)
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To: CHARLITE


You VILL attend mein show, schweinehund!
8 posted on 07/27/2005 8:15:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: CHARLITE

Now, more than ever, America needs Jane Fonda in a vegetable oil powered bus.


9 posted on 07/27/2005 8:18:00 PM PDT by baltodog (R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
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To: CHARLITE

I hope she comes to Mobile! I'd love to see her, she can express her views, and oh I can hardly wait to express MINE!

Somehow, I don't think she'll like what I've got to say.


10 posted on 07/27/2005 8:19:43 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: CHARLITE
Many Vietnam vets do not forgive Fonda for what they view as treason

trea·son ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trzn)

n.

Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.

Its not "viewed as treason" it *WAS* treason.

11 posted on 07/27/2005 8:19:44 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Register to vote as a Dem! You get to vote in their primaries and it screws up their polling data!)
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To: CHARLITE
The author almost got the song correct. It is actually BROTHER LOVE'S TRAVELING SALVATION SHOW
12 posted on 07/27/2005 8:23:49 PM PDT by doug from upland (The Hillary documentary is coming)
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To: Texas Eagle

Father Time has not been kind to Jane.


13 posted on 07/27/2005 8:25:08 PM PDT by sport
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To: CHARLITE

Stupid dumb bass bee-otch. Nothing much to say about commie "ladies of the night." She makes my skin crawl. First she's a Christian and Ted's not, so she divorces him. Then she's not either except a feminist-christian who still embraces everything not American. If this wasn't a family forum, I'd continue. Since it is a family forum I'll not invoke other nouns and adjectives for this piece of sewage slime.


14 posted on 07/27/2005 8:27:05 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: CHARLITE

Once a traitor, always a traitor!


15 posted on 07/27/2005 8:28:35 PM PDT by diverteach
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To: CHARLITE

Looks like she's gonna blow an artery in the photo. We can hope...


16 posted on 07/27/2005 8:28:58 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (NEW and IMPROVED: Now with 100% more Tyrannical Tendencies and Dictator Envy!)
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To: Shadowstrike
I hope she comes to Mobile!

When you're done talking to her, send her across the line to Laurel, MS. We Jones County folks would have words with her as well.
17 posted on 07/27/2005 8:30:10 PM PDT by neverhome (If Michael Jackson eats a fruitcake... izzit cannilbalism???)
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To: waylenjen
Nonsense. Hanoi Jane is irrelevant to anything these days except to her own and the LSM's respective egos.

''Dangerous'' should absolutely be reserved for Hitlery. Fonda can't wreck the Republic any further than she tried 35 years ago; Hitlery can, however, and would very much prefer to do.

18 posted on 07/27/2005 8:31:07 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: CHARLITE
She looks more like Ellen Degenerate than Jane Fonda in the first photo you posted. What's up with the flippy-out hair do? I just washed my hair and can't do a thing with it, but this is like SOOOOO in style.

I have to leave this thread. I so can't stand this piece of filthy commie trash.

19 posted on 07/27/2005 8:33:29 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: CHARLITE

Was stopped at a light beside a minivan that (according to the sign on back) had been converted to burn vegetable oil. Never saw such smoke and crud coming out of a tailpipe ever before!


20 posted on 07/27/2005 8:36:12 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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