Posted on 12/13/2005 9:23:22 PM PST by doesnt suffer fools gladly
Jane Fonda: U.S. Troops Are 'Killing Machines'
"Hanoi Jane" Fonda is claiming that ever since Vietnam, U.S. troops have been trained to commit atrocities against innocent civilians as a matter of military policy.
"Starting with the Vietnam War we began training soldiers differently," the anti-American actress says in an email to the Washington Post.
Fonda claims she learned of the policy switch in "secret meetings" she had with military psychologists "who were really worried about what was happening to our combat personnel."
One doctor, she insists, told her U.S. troops had been deliberately trained to be "killing machines."
"This began," Fonda maintained, "because the military discovered that in World War II and Korea, [U.S.] soldiers weren't killing enough."
"So they changed training procedures" to teach troops how to commit atrocities.
Still, the anti-war gadfly cautions, it's important not to blame the soldiers themselves for carrying out war crimes.
Recalling the "Winter Soldier" hearings that she and John Kerry staged in 1971, Fonda lamented: "When you put young people into an atrocity-producing situation where enemy and civilian are commingled, where the 'other side' is dehumanized, we cannot be surprised."
Anti-war vets now returning from Iraq, Fonda cautioned, should be listened to instead of being dismissed as "unpatriotic."
"We have not learned the lessons of Vietnam," she declared.
"So they changed training procedures" to teach troops how to commit atrocities."
28 years in and I missed all the atrocities classes! We were taught to be nice to folks. Maybe I was just not reading between the lines or something. Or may be Hanio Jane traitor Fonda is full of S***!
this woman should exercise her right to keep her mouth shut.
It sounds like our multi-billion dollar, tax payer funded, domestic violence industry is getting to lead a hate campaign against our return Iraqi veterans.
Just have the gender feminists train our young women in college women's studies courses to find a veteran to date (or marry), then falsely accuse him of being violent. The fact he's a "killing machine" should be enough to shake him down for some significant tangible assets.
Welcome to the commie America of femi-commie Jane Fonda's vision.
She makes Ted Turner seem sane.
...but...the longer she talks like this...the longer the line gets....to piss on her grave when she dies.
I don't think that she even remotely understands just how many people are lining up.
redrock
According to Webster's:
Def: Jane Fonda (pn) -- a rapidly-aging has-been third-rate "actress" well-past her shelf-life, seeking to find Relevance in a hostile world that: hasn't forgotten or forgiven her Vietnam "contribution", does not care who her Daddy was, no longer watches her B-Grade "movies", no longer buys her exercise "videos", no longer cares about her love life, that frankly doesn't give a D*m'n what she says, thinks, or does.
Syn: "Irrelevance". See also "Treason".
Until you kill them *all*....foriegn and domestic.
Must resist training everytime I see a picture of Hanoi Jane.
Too bad this "oldie, but goldie" film by Ms. Fonda doesn't get more publicity:
"FTA" (0r "F--k The Army"):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068562/fullcredits
Aside from being apparently unwatchable, I wouldn't be suprised if Ms. Fonda
bought up and burned all the copies.
Or maybe Kiefer Sutherland, as his dad appears in the film.
ping
To long ago!
Glad my tax dollars are being used wisely against our enemies
BTTT
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle" - Gunny R. Lee Ermey (One of my heroes) oorah!
Let's not Fergit Ramses Cluck and Swimmer. We have the whole crumby cast except for Abbie Hoffman, Joan Baez, and that lying phony from the VVAW?
"During which week of basic training is atrocities instruction provided?"
Fifth week--after morning PT, before close-order drill. :)
Better that than being an international "Meals on Wheels."
Like Rush says, "The purpose of the military is to kill people and break their things."
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