I knew there was something missing from the major armed conflicts of the last few decades.
No Jane Fonda in the capital of the enemy encouraging their anti-aircraft gunners to shoot down more of our aircraft.
CNN reporting live from Baghdad is not the same. No matter how much support they give the enemy.
From a Town Hall article, See Jane's Magical Mystery Tour :
Kathleen Parker / July 27, 2005We knew that World War II was serious when Lucky Strike green went to war. Similarly, Jane Fonda has made the war on terror a serious business.Like millions of Americans, I heaved a sigh of relief upon reading that Jane Fonda finally is going to speak out against the war in Iraq. Where has she been?
On book tour promoting her autobiography-in-progress, "My Life So Far." We might have guessed a real-time sequel was in the offing.
Fonda says that, having met some veterans and their families while on tour, she's decided to break her silence. "I've decided I'm coming out," she told an audience in Santa Fe, N.M. "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam. I carry a lot of baggage from that."
That baggage includes the now infamous photo of Fonda in 1972 sitting atop a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun while on a tour of that country. Many Vietnam vets do not forgive Fonda for what they view as treason and for making their lives harder, especially prisoners of war who were tortured in her name. To her limited credit, Fonda has apologized.
Still, her newest foray into antiwar territory feels like a cartoonish parody of her former self. Jane Fonda playing Jane Fonda. In her newest version of Me, Myself and I, Fonda will segue from book tour to antiwar tour via a cross-country trip on a bus that runs on vegetable oil. Slick. But is it canola? […]
(Lucky Strike cigarettes changed the color of the pack from green to white. Proclaiming to the American people that this wartime sacrifice was because of the scarcity of a chemical used in the dye that was critical to the war effort. Later it was learned that their research had determined that white would sell more cigarettes.)
