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| 'Hanoi Jane' becomes 'Jihad Jane' |
| 2007-02-01 |
| When I was a young teenager, the boys loved the sexy Jane Fonda in Barbarella. After I became an American soldier and a Vietnam veteran, she was "Hanoi Jane" to all of us. We were disgusted when she became a revolutionary and a communist sympathizer who sat on North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns and gave aid and comfort to our enemy. Now Hanoi Jane has become "Jihad Jane," and she has decided that the terrorists of the world who cut off people's heads and blow themselves up to kill innocent men, women and children are not as bad as the Americans who have liberated tens of millions of people since Sept. 11, 2001. In fact, I don't think I have ever heard her criticize the terrorists of the world. When a Fox News reporter asked her, "What do you think about what happened to the 3 million Vietnamese and Cambodians who died after the U.S. troops left Vietnam?" Fonda replied, "It's too bad that we caused it to happen by going in there in the first place." By blaming the United States for the millions of postwar murders in Southeast Asia, she proved to the world that she has never changed her radical philosophy. The killings after that war were the result of purges by her communist friends in Vietnam and by the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Obviously, the apologies she made in the past for her actions during the Vietnam War were only because of book and video deals or to promote a movie. Fortunately, the average American is too smart to believe that Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn or Tim Robbins are anything more than struggling celebrities who would do almost anything to get their mugs plastered on television. When Robbins was unable to give an intelligent answer to a question, he suggested that the reporter enlist in the military. These so-called movie stars have the depth of a saucer of milk. They are shallow individuals who don't understand the scope of the threat facing the world. To blame the vast majority of deaths in Iraq or Afghanistan on the United States is to admit they don't watch the news. Our soldiers are killing insurgents and jihadists; the bad guys are the ones killing innocent civilians on the streets of Baghdad and Kabul with their improvised explosive devices, car bombs and suicide vests. While there have been mistakes and tactical errors in waging the war on terror, if Osama bin Laden says the third world war is raging in Iraq, I believe him. We can't pretend that our enemy has not made that country the front line in the war on terror. No matter how "famous" the Fondas and the Penns may be, even they cannot ignore the tsunami of blood sweeping across the world in the form of Islamic fundamentalism. This evil is being promoted and inspired by various entities, but the most successful has been Iran. Now that Tehran says it wants to increase its military and economic support for Iraq, we only have to look at Lebanon to see what could follow. The Iranian-supported terrorists of Hezbollah have no intention of letting a secular and democratic Lebanese government survive, and they are the model for fundamentalists in Iraq like Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army. Al-Sadr is also supported by Iran, and he is part of the current political process only because it suits his purposes for the moment. As a veteran of Vietnam and Operation Iraqi Freedom, I am waiting for the "celebrities" like Jane Fonda to make their trips to Iraq and Afghanistan for photo opportunities with the insurgent leaders. I can already picture Fonda holding an AK47 and wearing a suicide vest as she becomes cozy with the terrorists. After "Jihad Jane" and her Hollywood pals sit on Haifa Street sipping tea with the insurgents, I hope they are permitted to leave with their heads. Sgt. 1st Class Chuck Grist is preparing to mobilize for the third time since Sept. 11, 2001. He can be reached through his blog at www.AmericanRanger.blogspot.com. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #14 JFM, Jihad Jane is probably the most depised woman in America--I don't think there are any close seconds. I'ma thinkin' that Rosie O'Donnell is pushing hard for #2! And, tu, disgustingly, she was introduced like that on Saturday at the D.C. anti-war march. "Here's a lady who speaks for all our vaginas" or some such crap. |
| Posted by: BA 2007-02-01 22:07 |
| #13 Count your blessing (at least she didn't try to strip for Peace) people. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-01 21:43 |
| #12 Does she still have a talking vagina? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-01 18:51 |
| #11 Cindy Shithead comes to mind. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-02-01 18:03 |
| #10 #mike I believe she's blindly quoting the Noamster on that. It's funny how the Chumpsky Disciples sound just like the David Koresh followers. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2007-02-01 18:03 |
| #9 JFM, Jihad Jane is probably the most depised woman in America--I don't think there are any close seconds. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-02-01 17:57 |
| #8 She should have been executed as a traitor She should have been executed as facilitator of genocide. And then it is all yours for a second execution as traitor. I have a personal grudge against her. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-02-01 17:45 |
| #7 Sgt. 1st Class Chuck Grist--Thanks for your service to your country both in the military and in the press. The main stream media does not get it. When I read Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, and Tim Robbins I think traitors of the ilk of Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw, Fortunately they live in American where they are safely enscounced behind the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects their right to be free and to speak and yes even to sound like the shallow idiots they are. Thanks again Chuck for what you are doing. Keep up the good work and be safe. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-02-01 12:12 |
| #6 She should have been executed as a traitor decades ago. It is no surprise she continues to side with any evil against the free nation which has made her rich. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-02-01 12:06 |
| #5 So who is making the new urinal sticker of Jihad Jane??? Her other stickers are getting a bit old. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2007-02-01 09:41 |
| #4 Hanoi or Jihad, Jane is still an ignorant slut. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-02-01 09:35 |
| #3 ..gobal=global...PIMF, PIMF... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-01 09:23 |
| #2 When a Fox News reporter asked her, "What do you think about what happened to the 3 million Vietnamese and Cambodians who died after the U.S. troops left Vietnam?" Fonda replied, "It's too bad that we caused it to happen by going in there in the first place." ...the TRULY sad part about that is that we have only taught our kids - more or less - that Vietnam was heaven on earth before the Americans got there, and Gawd knows that ain't true. Even seriously biased authors and commentators like Stanley Karnow (Vietnam: A History) make it very clear that violence, terrorism, and rebellion were part of everyday life in Vietnam for more than a century before we got there. We just happened to be the ones who went in there with gobal communications and reporting behind them. Add to that America's amnesiac historical memory, and Jane will say that all day long and no one will call her on it. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-01 09:15 |
| #1 And I hope they are not... |
| Posted by: imoyaro 2007-02-01 09:07 |