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The Jane Game

7.27.05 @ 12:01AM

FONDA FOLLIES
Re: Jed Babbin's Baghdad Barbarella:

Professor Babbin's excellent takedown of Hanoi Jane highlights an historical nexus that ought to be explored more: that of the Cold War and the renewed jihad that followed its end.

Islam preceded the Soviet Union by 12-13 centuries in implementing a totalitarian organization of human life. The Nazis, and their temporarily victorious competitors in the Soviet Union, stirred modern industrial method into the soup, with dreadful effect.

The latest phase of global jihad has now picked up this line of satanic R&D, using the West's technology and Soviet-style methods of subversion (e.g., the case of the EU) against it.

It is a potent brew indeed, and its heady aroma, wafting across the planet, seems to have lured hibernating Useful Idiots like Baghdad Barbarella out of their moldy caves.

And she is a serious Manchurian for President of these United States!

The Bill, as it were, has come due.
-- Paul Kotik
Tel Aviv, Israel

Been playing my tunes from the '60s lately, now we got Hanoi Jane going on a bus tour to add to the nostalgia. Deja-Vu. Like Jed Babbin said, though this time it's different. We saw what happened when we pulled out of 'Nam. Iraq isn't some backwater nation in S.E. Asia, either, and Saddam wasn't some bearded skinny commie, and the Iraqi people seem to be a little more able to handle themselves (with some help from friends).We don't have POW's languishing in a prison cell so Jane can have a photo session. Maybe she will have some "vets" with her. I'm sure there's some disgruntled ones out there, always is. Wonder if they'll be like the ones she had in the 70's. And yes, there will be a few of us with picket signs telling her our thoughts. Maybe Howie will join her. He can bring up his memories of 'Nam as he saw it from the slopes in Aspen to compare it with Iraq (as he saw it from the hills of Vermont and the cornfields of the Midwest). The only problem I see with all of this though is figuring what phone number to put on my bumper sticker alongside the Jane, Call Home, 1-800-Hanoi. Looks like I'll have to get another slogan.
-- Pete Chagnon

What a great article concerning "Hanoi Jane"! At the time of Fonda's treason, I was a Navy wife, only concerned with bringing my husband home. The news only reported the anti-war demonstrations here at home, LBJ's reluctance to call it what it was, a "War" -- it was called a "CONFLICT." Kent State, and nonessential trivia. If I had then what is HERE now: Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and the sophisticated recording devices that show the GOOD that we are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, I would have felt much better about having my husband away, being a hero! Thanks for showing the REAL side of Vietnam and THE WAR ON TERRORISM! Hopefully, the Dems will decide that fighting the war on terrorism where the terrorists live is better than fighting them here!
-- unsigned

So Jane is going to Iraq. I wonder if Hitler and Goebbels would have posed her on an anti -aircraft gun during WW2 -- the U.S. soldiers who were killed and maimed in Vietnam, and the innocents who were later murdered in that country and Laos and Cambodia suffered as much as those killed and maimed in WW2. If she had done it during WW2 she would have been tried for treason! Perhaps executed. Free speech is one thing, but when your acts cause the deaths of American fighting men and women, that is treason! If she is permitted to do this I would like to see her walk through a hospital filled with maimed and wounded veterans whose wounds were caused by her and others of her ilk giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The Viet Cong prayed for the American Public to aid in ending the war. They had shot their wad with the Tet Offensive were they lost tremendous amounts of men and equipment, but the press convinced the American Public we had lost the battle.

Hitler prayed for a division of the Allies. His V-1and V-2 were to make the British public think they should get out of the war. Can you imagine Jane and Adolf sitting on a V2 and saying if you bomb German cities and kill innocent people we will destroy you. We don't want to harm you; we are saving you from Bolshevism. Stop the war! Sounds silly, but that is what she did, and wants to do again! Is this country nuts?

How did her hippie brother get out of going to the Army -- hiding behind a skirt, or hiding in college as so many of our politicians? Did Dick and Teddy and many of our other politicians do military service? No wonder they won't do anything about her, and others like her. If she writes a book the proceeds should go to the families of killed and wounded veterans.
-- Frank Dollinger
Channahon, Illinois

This shameless creep would not be at it again if we had done our duty as loyal Americans. Hanoi Jane should have been tried, convicted and executed for treason years ago. This might have given pause to Willie the Raper who sold our military secrets to the Chinese People's Army. Traitor Kerry might have declined to betray America, our Vietnamese allies, our POW's and Nicaragua. He might even have voted for some of the military hardware which performed so well in Iraq. Even Turban Durbin might have hesitated to curry favor with the terrorists by betraying our warriors in Al Jazeera and throughout the Muslim world. Scorn is too good for the traitor scum. Okay, I'm dreaming. Anyway, good on yuh, Jed.
-- Dick Lambert
Eagle Rock, Virginia

I love Jed Babbin, but he makes the same mistake about Jane Fonda that countless others have made, to wit, she never apologized for her Vietnam activities, she merely expressed "regret." E.g.: I may regret that Fonda is an [redacted], but that doesn't mean I apologize for it.
-- D. Dvorak

Lucky USA! Jed Babbin is the gift that keeps on giving. No one says it better.
-- Cara Lyons Lege
Frisco, Texas

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