Dedicated to the "Old
Soldier"
Newsweek Article Pays Tribute to “Hanoi Jane” Fonda – What’s Next? “Person of
the Year” Honors?
Hanoi Jane Fonda Manning a NVA Anti-aircraft Gun
Newsweek’s 22 & 29 Aug 2011 Double Issue featured an extremely laudatory piece on Fonda but this was my favorite passage in this entire article: “….her perceived antipathy for veterans during the Vietnam War ….” If “Hanoi Jane’s” actions could be described as “perceived antipathy,” as a Vietnam Vet (actually extended there) I’d hate to be around if she were to ever really get pissed off at me.
For the record Fonda visited Hanoi in July 1972 and made several false anti-American accusations that the North Vietnamese used for propaganda. During her trip, Fonda made ten radio broadcasts in which she denounced American political and military leaders as "war criminals;" her most egregious accusation was she falsely accused them of deliberately targeting the Red River dike system which, if true, might have drown as many as 200,000 people.
A contemporary 7 Aug 1972 Time Magazine article “VIET NAM: The Battle of the Dikes”
(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,8... ) refuted this allegation and contained this passage:
“During (Columnist Joseph Kraft’s) own current tour of North Viet Nam, Kraft reasoned that if the U.S. Air Force were "truly going after the dikes, it would do so in a methodical, not a harum-scarum way." Summarized Kraft: "I have to conclude from what I have seen that there is no deliberate American drive to bomb the dikes. But the dikes do run parallel to many roads. Some are close to railroad tracks and bridges." Inevitably, some dikes have been hit in error, Kraft believes, and the damage—also inevitably —has been exploited by the North Vietnamese for propaganda purposes.
Kraft's conclusion supported the US officials version, that the dikes were not being "targeted," but that a few dikes near military targets had been accidentally damaged. The State Department released the results of a photo-reconnaissance of the entire Red River Delta taken in mid-July which revealed bomb craters at only twelve locations in the dike system—ten of them near petroleum storage tanks, and all relatively minor. The evidence showed conclusively that there has been no intentional bombing of the dikes.
I would only point out that Joseph Kraft (1924-1986), a former John F. Kennedy speechwriter, and Washington Post and New York Times reporter with a syndicated column running in over 200 papers was in North Vietnam at the same time as Fonda and was NO friend of Nixon's or the War; he was even on Nixon's "Enemies List" and was highly critical of the Vietnam War. Kraft would have jumped on any opportunity to disparage Nixon or the War if something had been there. There wasn't!
During the visit, Hanoi Jane even had the audacity to be photographed manning an anti-aircraft battery and there are persistent rumors that some POWs were forced to meet with her and she spat on them, called them "baby-killers." Then, when some POWs attempted to sneak notes to her to let their families know they were alive she turned the note over to the North Vietnamese which led to the prisoners being tortured.
When cases of torture began to emerge among the returning POWs, Fonda called the returning POWs "hypocrites and liars.” In my opinion this is the moral equivalent of Hanoi Jane being a “Holocaust Denier.”
To be fair, in a 1988 Barbara Walters interview Fonda expressed regret for some of her comments and actions saying: "I would like to say something … to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did…. I was thoughtless and careless … I want to apologize to them and their families… I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes…. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless..."
Of course her apology came at a time when a group of New England Veterans had launched a campaign to disrupt a film project she was working on so Hanoi Jane's apology might ring a tad hallow and have been motivated more by self economic interest than remorse.
Newsweek’s 22 & 29 Aug 2011 Double Issue featured an extremely laudatory piece on Fonda but this was my favorite passage in this entire article: “….her perceived antipathy for veterans during the Vietnam War ….” If “Hanoi Jane’s” actions could be described as “perceived antipathy,” as a Vietnam Vet (actually extended there) I’d hate to be around if she were to ever really get pissed off at me.
For the record Fonda visited Hanoi in July 1972 and made several false anti-American accusations that the North Vietnamese used for propaganda. During her trip, Fonda made ten radio broadcasts in which she denounced American political and military leaders as "war criminals;" her most egregious accusation was she falsely accused them of deliberately targeting the Red River dike system which, if true, might have drown as many as 200,000 people.
A contemporary 7 Aug 1972 Time Magazine article “VIET NAM: The Battle of the Dikes”
(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,8... ) refuted this allegation and contained this passage:
“During (Columnist Joseph Kraft’s) own current tour of North Viet Nam, Kraft reasoned that if the U.S. Air Force were "truly going after the dikes, it would do so in a methodical, not a harum-scarum way." Summarized Kraft: "I have to conclude from what I have seen that there is no deliberate American drive to bomb the dikes. But the dikes do run parallel to many roads. Some are close to railroad tracks and bridges." Inevitably, some dikes have been hit in error, Kraft believes, and the damage—also inevitably —has been exploited by the North Vietnamese for propaganda purposes.
Kraft's conclusion supported the US officials version, that the dikes were not being "targeted," but that a few dikes near military targets had been accidentally damaged. The State Department released the results of a photo-reconnaissance of the entire Red River Delta taken in mid-July which revealed bomb craters at only twelve locations in the dike system—ten of them near petroleum storage tanks, and all relatively minor. The evidence showed conclusively that there has been no intentional bombing of the dikes.
I would only point out that Joseph Kraft (1924-1986), a former John F. Kennedy speechwriter, and Washington Post and New York Times reporter with a syndicated column running in over 200 papers was in North Vietnam at the same time as Fonda and was NO friend of Nixon's or the War; he was even on Nixon's "Enemies List" and was highly critical of the Vietnam War. Kraft would have jumped on any opportunity to disparage Nixon or the War if something had been there. There wasn't!
During the visit, Hanoi Jane even had the audacity to be photographed manning an anti-aircraft battery and there are persistent rumors that some POWs were forced to meet with her and she spat on them, called them "baby-killers." Then, when some POWs attempted to sneak notes to her to let their families know they were alive she turned the note over to the North Vietnamese which led to the prisoners being tortured.
When cases of torture began to emerge among the returning POWs, Fonda called the returning POWs "hypocrites and liars.” In my opinion this is the moral equivalent of Hanoi Jane being a “Holocaust Denier.”
To be fair, in a 1988 Barbara Walters interview Fonda expressed regret for some of her comments and actions saying: "I would like to say something … to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did…. I was thoughtless and careless … I want to apologize to them and their families… I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes…. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless..."
Of course her apology came at a time when a group of New England Veterans had launched a campaign to disrupt a film project she was working on so Hanoi Jane's apology might ring a tad hallow and have been motivated more by self economic interest than remorse.
Dedicated to the “Old
Soldier” you and your Brothers deserve the truth! Thank you for your service to
our Country.
Vietnam
Weather Underground (opposition to the Vietnam War)
The Weather
Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground,
was an American radical left organization founded on the Ann
Arbor campus of the University
of Michigan. Originally
called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen. Weatherman
organized in 1969 as a faction of Students
for a Democratic Society (SDS)[2] composed for the most part of the
national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to
create a clandestine revolutionary party for the overthrow of the US
government.
With revolutionary positions characterized by Black power
and opposition to the Vietnam War,[2]
the group conducted a campaign of bombings through the mid-1970s, and took part
in actions such as the jailbreak of Timothy Leary.
Note: Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for Vietnam.
Bernadine Dohrn
was a litigator for Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Weather Underground,
and is married to William C. Ayers.
William C. Ayers
is married to Bernadine Dohrn, Richard M. Daley’s adviser, was a
member of the Weather Underground, a
director at the Woods Fund of Chicago,
and a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge.
Barack
Obama was a director at the Woods
Fund of Chicago, a chairman for the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge, an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP, is the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and married to Michelle
Obama.
Michelle
Obama is married to Barack Obama,
was Mayor Richard M. Daley’s staffer,
and a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Richard
M. Daley’s staffer was Michelle
Obama, the Chicago (IL) mayor, his
adviser is William C. Ayers, and a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for Vietnam.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Natural Resources
Defense Council.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Sidney
Harman was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the owner
for the Harman Media.
Harman
Media acquired Newsweek.
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN,
and was married to Hanoi Jane A.K.A.
Jane Fonda.
Updated 1/24/14 at 4:02am EST for: Michelle Obama Chooses
Jane Fonda as Role Model (Past Research)
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Jane
Fonda was married to Ted Turner,
and married to Tom Hayden.
Tom
Hayden was married to Jane Fonda,
a co-founder for the Students for a
Democratic Society, and is an editorial board member for The Nation.
Calvin
Trillin is a contributor for The
Nation, and was a member of the Scroll
and Key.
Fareed
Zakaria was a member of the Scroll
and Key, the editor for Newsweek
International, and is the host for Fareed
Zakaria GPS.
Fareed Zakaria
GPS is a CNN program.
David
L. Grange is a military analyst for CNN,
a director at the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, and was a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
Maya
Lin is the designer of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial, and an honorary trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Michelle
Obama is a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs, married to Barack
Obama, and was a lawyer at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for Vietnam.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and married to Bryan
Traubert.
Bryan Traubert
is married to Penny S. Pritzker, and
a director at the National Park
Foundation.
Mary
A. Bomar was the secretary for the National
Park Foundation, and a director at the National
Park Service.
Jonathan B.
Jarvis is a director at the National
Park Foundation, and a director at the National
Park Service.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
(Past Research)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
One Million Vets To March On DC 10-13-2013 (Past Research)
Sunday, October 6, 2013
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