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.
fonda = fubar
The plausibility of your theory is intriguing to say the least. Let's examine it. What better way to disseminate psyops than using an old leftist mouthpiece. Tom Clancy stuff. It would be brilliant.
Hey Jane, where's my dinner? And when you going to clean up this place?
I think the dear little old lady has the military confused with her beloved abortion industry. She's no doubt confused by her menopausal hot flashes.
Gees....Am I having a time travel backward spin?
With Kerry and now Fonda's comments...if I didn't know better, I would think it was the 70's all over again!
Killing machines? Hey Jane, this is not the movies...our military uses REAL bullets. The guys on the other side are called " the enemy". And it works like this...We try to kill them before they kill all of us. No one yells " Take two" to re-run the scene.
Jane, your biggest problem now is that you are no longer 22 years old and you are really dumb.
Yes, she should have been.
And yes Jane I have a very hard heart for those who wish to enslave or kill us and my way of life
It's the MOST WONDERFUL time, of the year! ;-)
I am completely at a loss for what to say about her. I am at a loss for words.
So that's what Vadim told her those sex parties were.
58 posts in 17 minutes-----
-----has somebody touched a raw nerve????
Hope the Repubs continue the 'montage' of Demrats telling the truth about themselves. . .
Believed to have vanished forever since it was last seen perched on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, the world's oldest loon, Loonica Fondajanus resurfaced this week, its ancient face contorted beyond the Pelosi stage while its shrill squawk provoked memories of its equally nonsensical but more familiar Boston relative, Loonicus Effinkerry.
Off to bed....nite all!
Many people consider our Civil War to be the first modern war fought. It was the first conflict to use trench warfare, among other things.
She's got Rambo fever!
Betty, 77 year old Iraqi voter in Michigan
Suggestions for fubar:
1. fiber
2. fibber
3. Fabre
4. fobbed
5. -footer
6. February
7. foible
8. fabular
9. febri-
10. fibro-
Hmmmm, hard to pick from. The fobbed fibber with the fabular footer, or the fibro fiber of a Feburary foible??
Nice job Hanoi Jane. No amount of doubletalk will make anyone believe your sorry for being a traitor.
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