Jane Fonda: U.S. Troops Are 'Killing Machines'

www.newsmax.com ^ | Dec. 13, 2005 | newsmax.com

[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.

[pogo101]

Jane Fonda: U.S. Troops Are 'Killing Machines'

I should hope they are.

[Torie]

I would certainly hope that the US military forces were lean, mean, killing machines, that could do so in a very disproportionate way. They do. That is what must annoy Fonda, and so many of the left. The thought that America can effectively project military power, particularly unilaterally, annoys and even disgusts them.

[RichInOC]

Verily, thou art not paid for thy methods, but for thy results, by which meaneth thou shalt kill thine enemy before he killeth you by any means available.

--Richard Marcinko, Ninth Commandment of SpecWar

[M. Espinola]

Maybe the both of them can reopen the Hanoi Hilton and remain forever. After all they worked for a communist victory and an American defeat.

During World War Two this would have been case-closed-treason

[vrwc0915]

What I would give for a time machine and a Mk-19

[cricket]

"We have not learned the lessons of Vietnam," she declared.". .

. . .the 'WE' in truth being Jane. . .John. . .Ted. . .algore. . .Harry. . .Bill. . .and the rest of the 'ad nauseum' Demrats.

[M. Espinola]

Double ditto :)

[Grut]

My BS meter is beeping.

So's mine. I can't find any attribution in the NewsMax story, or any sign of the 'e-mail' in the WaPo.

[Shortstop7]

Gotta agree with you on that one......

But times are a changing, huh?

[james500]

She should tell a US Marine to his face that he's not a MAN, he's only a MACHINE built by evil people.

Or better yet, she should have one of her male friends do it and see what happens.

[Enterprise]

Yes they are Jane. And that's the way they are going to stay so STFU!

[Torie]

Well it is fun while it lasted perhaps. Some stories are just too tasty, and you are right, the source is rather shaky.

[vrwc0915]

[magslinger]

May she join him soon.

Why? Are you planning to stand in that line?

[azsportsterman]

Dear Ms. Fonda;

You're so full of sh*t your breath stinks!

[Grut]

Incidentally, if this is a put-on, a lot of Freepers are going to look like prize asses.

[Chena]

Jane is insane.

[Windsong]

"We have not learned the lessons of Vietnam,"

We didn't lost Vietnam. We left.

[melt]

You see, if you don't punish your traitorous whores the 1st time... they'll be back for sloppy seconds.

[Gum Shoe]

"Jane Fonda: U.S. Troops Are 'Killing Machines'"

Two kinds of people in this world. Americans and targets.