The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

NewsMax ^ | February 8, 2004 | Staff

[kennedy]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM EST

The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

Democratic Party officials are hoping that no photographs exist of a well-covered Vietnam War protest where soldier-hating actress Jane Fonda and Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, then and up-and-coming member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, railed against U.S. war policy from the back of the same pick-up truck.

"Scores of newspaper articles about the march" exist, according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley.

Dubbed "Operation RAW" [Rapid American Withdrawal], the Sept. 1970 march featured Fonda, Kerry and a motley band of anti-war vets in an eighty-six mile trek from Morristown, New Jersey and Valley Forge, Pennsylvania - two Revolutionary War sites.

According to "Tour of Duty," Brinkley's book on Kerry's war years, when the protesters reached their destination they were treated to Fonda standing on the bed of a pick-up truck, where she "denounced the Nixon administration as a beehive for cold blooded killers."

"Marijuana was in the air," said Brinkley. "Skinny dippers frolicked in the Delaware River. . . [The group's] long hair, ripped jeans, army surplus store canteens, and toy guns gave the VVAW the look of a ragtag band of Haight-Ashbury refugees. . .

"Along the marching route, veterans would shout out phrases like 'Kill him!' and 'Cut his belly open' for dramatic effect," said Brinkley.

Others who spoke that day proclaimed the U.S. guilty of "genocide" in Southeast Asia.

Kerry followed Fonda's Nixon denunciation with a rousing anti-war address that made him "the new leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War," Brinkley said. "From Valley Forge onward, [Kerry] was a committed anitwar activist. . ."

From there, Kerry went on to Detroit to organize a particularly offensive bit of guerrilla theater dubbed "The Winter Soldier Investigation," where Fonda presided as U.S. war atrocities were chronicled by "soldiers" who some later suspected were impostors.

After Winter Soldier, writes Brinkley, "Fonda personally adopted [Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War] as her leading cause."

[rocksblues]

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[martin_fierro]

Well, it's Kerry, obviously.

[SheLion]

My Viet Nam Vet Hubby HATED this woman!

[GOPJ]

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[mikeb704]

I have to admit that I found the basic sticker somewhere on the 'Net. My contribution was adding the VC flag between the names of those two charmers.

[mikeb704]

You gotta slap that on the back of a 14-year-old Volvo, though!

Trouble is there's just never a 14-year-old Volvo handy when you need one.

[TigersEye]

Nice touch. :-)

[MeekOneGOP]

Howdy ! Kerry is photoshopped into that pic, right ? Please let me know.

In any case, thanks in advance ...

Kerry: America needs a 'regime change' too

[eyespysomething]

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[Winfield]

Do you mean to tell me "Long John Kerry" now has to choose between "Gomer" Edwards and "Hanoi" Jane for his VP?? Tough choice!

[WOSG]

Interesting!!

So you are saying it is a pre-emptive strike to get Vietnam *off* the table?

hmmmm. Check this out:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074196/posts

[WOSG]

There are some technologies that just shouldnt be explored, like human cloning and photo shop mixups between Janet Jackson and Nancy Pelosi .... ewwwwwww.

[Liz]

Here's the pics, Meek. Have at it.

"Jane, my dear comrade, let me help you with that gun turret."

[Winfield]

Do you mean to tell me "Long John Kerry" now has to choose between "Gomer" Edwards and "Hanoi" Jane for his VP?? Tough choice!

[WOSG]

And let it be noted that Ramsey Clark has ended his inglorious notorious career of aiding and abetting tyranny and communism by being the paid mouth-piece for the Saddam Hussein Iraqi regime.

[GailA]

RUSH JUST MENTIONED THIS PHOTO!

[Elkiejg]

HLL - you're famous!! Rush has been talking about YOUR photo for the last 15 minutes. He's going to post it on his website. A shame it didn't give credit to you and FR for finding it.

[LibWhacker]

[Dog]

This is becoming personal for me......see my older brother was almost killed(he survived) in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive and every time I see Fonda posing on the AA gun..I do a slow burn.

So I'm going to try like hell to locate the Fonda/Kerry photo...I read they were together at the Winter Soldier hearings in Detroit.

[Dog]

Rush will post on his web site the photo you found last evening of Fonda and Kerry.

I think you deserve the credit.....you found it.