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Jane Fonda on Vietnam War comments: 'I made a huge, huge mistake'
Stars and Stripes ^ | 2/19/15 | Jones

Posted on 02/19/2015 7:40:56 AM PST by pabianice

Jane Fonda said she hoped for an open dialogue with veterans after about 50 former military members and supporters protested the actress’s appearance Friday evening at the Weinberg Center for the Arts.

“Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad,” Fonda told a relatively full theater, responding to a submitted question. “It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers.”

In 1972 Fonda visited Hanoi, North Vietnam, where she criticized attacks on the dike system along the Red River. A U.S. investigation later revealed the publicity of these bombings as propaganda. Fonda’s statements and a photograph of her sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery outraged many Americans and veterans, leading many to call her “Hanoi Jane” and a “traitor.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hanoi; hanoijane; janefonda; northvietnam; traitor; treason; vietnam; vietnamwar
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To: pabianice

Yes, you did, Jane. Now shut up about it and take your lumps. Forever.

I didn’t fight in Vietnam. I’m not even a veteran. I am just an American. But I will not forget. And I will not forgive.


61 posted on 02/19/2015 8:59:59 AM PST by IronJack
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To: central_va

Sherman wasn’t a traitor.


62 posted on 02/19/2015 9:01:21 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

Same as you IronJack.

She has never acknowledged that her support of the NVA and the Communists resulted in not only the loss of South Vietnam but also the wholesale of over 3 million people in Southeast Asia after 1975.

And with her BS movie “China Syndrome” she halted nuclear energy in the US.

How much damage can one woman do ?


63 posted on 02/19/2015 9:02:25 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: pabianice
Gosh... a bad choice?

Sorry about your luck "Hanoi Jane"

64 posted on 02/19/2015 9:06:29 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: pabianice

Jane Fonda, the most despised woman in the history of the United States.


65 posted on 02/19/2015 9:07:17 AM PST by mom.mom
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To: exit82

You’d have to ask Hillary Clinton that.


66 posted on 02/19/2015 9:08:03 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

We are still tallying the body count in the MidEast thanks to Cankles.


67 posted on 02/19/2015 9:09:24 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Da Bilge Troll

Her and John Katshup “I was in Vietnam”) Kerry are TRAITOR scum and alsways will be.

VAW-116 aboard USS Coral Sea (CVA-43)
1968-69 Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club


68 posted on 02/19/2015 9:11:49 AM PST by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: Da Bilge Troll

Her and John Katshup “I was in Vietnam”) Kerry are TRAITOR scum and alsways will be.

VAW-116 aboard USS Coral Sea (CVA-43)
1968-69 Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club


69 posted on 02/19/2015 9:11:59 AM PST by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: RinaseaofDs

She did take a note and she did cause a lot of harm and we are Christians and there IS forgiveness, even for a hitler who repents - or we are like ISIS and need a good head chopping.


70 posted on 02/19/2015 9:12:22 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: pabianice

Too late Jane. You will get no sympathy from me. Also, I don’t believe any of the crap about taking the shame to the grave. You are a Marxist piece of dung. Your father is the one that carried shame to the grave for having two douches like you and Peter.


71 posted on 02/19/2015 9:13:10 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: pabianice

Fonda: “Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?”


72 posted on 02/19/2015 9:13:58 AM PST by Zman (Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
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To: pabianice
Her mistake was in being a communist and giving aid and support to the enemy. It wasn't a mistake. It was a deliberate and calculated act.

Charles Manson likely says he made a mistake. But he still pays the price.

That's life.

73 posted on 02/19/2015 9:17:46 AM PST by LouAvul ("GOP" is an acronym for "We had our nuts cut off and lost our spine in the process.")
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To: pabianice
Just die already, Hanoi Jane. There is no way you have another year left
in that bag of bones we call Traitor!
74 posted on 02/19/2015 9:17:49 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
We all know people who thrill over other's during their misery.
They are the Liberals supporting each other for mass misery.

It's medically known as Psychopathy.

75 posted on 02/19/2015 9:21:16 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: central_va
A depressed schizophrenic.

Who's pickin' your cotton?

76 posted on 02/19/2015 9:21:20 AM PST by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: pabianice

I, for one, do not believe her. I never saw her movies or bought her exercise tapes. She was dead to me years ago.


77 posted on 02/19/2015 9:23:43 AM PST by tioga
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

A murders B.

By what authority does C, as a non-agrieved third party, have the right to grant forgiveness to A?

Does C (same C as above) have authority to grant forgiveness at a distance to an unrepentant party who has not asked to be forgiven?

Does C have to power to forgive across time, either in the past or future?

You assume powers not granted to you, you wish to be merely clothed in piety, to be perceived to be such by others.


78 posted on 02/19/2015 9:25:40 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: pabianice

Yes Jane.......you were born.


79 posted on 02/19/2015 9:28:44 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Drew68

What else can she say?

Be actually sincere and drop that lying “thoughtless” BS. You are sometimes thoughtless. I am sometimes thoughtless. Hate and Treason and Calumny aren’t even remotely just “thoughtless”


80 posted on 02/19/2015 9:29:26 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job..)
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