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07/26/05 |
Fonda on warpath - Plans U.S. tour to protest Iraq policy
BY ADAM NICHOLS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
"Hanoi Jane" is doing it again.
Actress Jane Fonda has launched an anti-Iraq war protest - infuriating veterans still seething from her Vietnam antics.
"I've decided I'm coming out," she said, announcing plans to cruise a vegetable oil-fueled bus across the U.S., stopping for high-profile protests.
It's her first active campaigning since being photographed laughing as she sat on a gun used by North Vietnamese troops to blow U.S. aircraft from the sky. The wounds from that stunt are still far from healed.
"She should keep her mouth shut," said Iraq veteran Lee Hadziyianis, 33, of New Hyde Park, Queens. "She did enough damage in Vietnam. We don't need that again." Hadziyianis, a military police officer and weapons specialist, went into Baghdad in May 2003. He returned to New York last year.
"What does she expect to achieve?" he said. "The decision makers aren't going to be influenced by her. Even if they are, pulling the troops out early would mean all those guys who died died in vain. We need to finish the job, and having somebody with her reputation making a noise from home helps nobody."
"It's like putting gasoline on a bonfire for so many veterans who will never forget what she did in Vietnam," said American Legion spokeswoman Ramona Joyce. "We don't want to see a Baghdad Jane."
The 67-year-old Fonda's plans include signing up families of Iraq war veterans to speak out against the U.S. presence, she said at a signing of her autobiography, "My Life So Far," over the weekend.
Fonda, whose popularity was shattered by the Vietnam visit, has reinvented herself this year with a starring role in the blockbuster movie "Monster-in-Law," and the publishing of her successful autobiography.
Announcing the bus tour, she said, "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam. I carry a lot of baggage from that." But she has spoken against the Iraq war, claiming it was based on lies - a claim she also made about Vietnam.
"I think it was a mistake," she told the Daily News this year. "It's another example of the government lying to the American people in order to get us into war." She has said she believes American troops should be supported.
Fonda's bus tour is being planned to begin in March, the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq conflict.
For some, her return to anti-war protest is welcomed. Sue Niederer's son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, of Hopewell, N.J., was killed in February last year trying to disarm a bomb in Iraq. Said his mother, "She speaks from her heart, and it's because she's controversial that people admire her. She stands up for what she believes.
"If I'm asked, it would be my pleasure to stand with her and speak with her."
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Sigh...
Question? Hmmm...perhaps you'd prefer this version of Jane's "coming out" party?
Steve
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Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 07/26/05 11:30 am:
here is Goldberg's list (no Fonda did not make the cut .....too irrelevent)
Michael Moore
Arthur Sulzberger publisher, NY Slimes
Ted Kennedy
Jesse Jackson
Anthony Romero head of ACLU
Jimmy Carter
Margaret Marshall Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Paul Krugman
Jonathan Kozol
Ralph Neas
Noam Chomsky
Dan Rather
Andrew Heyward
Mary Mapes
Ted Rall
John Edwards (Kerry doesn't make it)
Al Sharpton
Al Gore
George Soros
Howard Dean
Judge Roy Moore
Michael Newdow
The Unknown American Terrorist
Lee Bollinger
James Kopp
Dr. Martin Haskell
Paul Begala
Julian Bond
John Green
Latrell Sprewell
Maury Povich
Jerry Springer
Bob Shrum
Bill Moyers
Jeff Danziger
Nancy Hopkins
Al Franken
Jim McDermott
Peter Singer
Scott Harshbarger
Susan Beresford
Gloria Steinem
Paul Eibeler
Dennis Kozlowski
Ken Lay
Barbara Walters
Maxine Waters
Robert Byrd
Ingrid Newkirk
John Vasconellos
Ann Pelo
Markos Moulitsas
Anna Nicole Smith
Neal Shapiro
David Westin
Diane Sawyer
Ted Field
Eminem
Shirley Franklin
Ludacris
Michael Savage
Howard Stern
Amy Richards
James Wolcott
Oliver Stone
David Duke
Randall Robinson
Katherine Hanson
Matt Kunitz
Jimmy Swaggart
Phil Donahue
Ward Churchill
Barbara Kingsolver
Katha Politt
Eric Foner
Barbara Foley
Linda Hirshman
Norman Mailer
Harry Belafonte
Kitty Kelley
Tim Robbins
Laurie David
The Dumb and Vicious Celebrity
The Vicious Celebrity
The Dumb Celebrity
Chris Ofili
Sheldon Hackney
Aaron McGruder
Jane Smiley
Michael Jackson
Barbara Streisand
Kerri Dunn
Richard Timmons
Guy Velella
Courtney Love
Eve Ensler
Todd Goldman
Sheila Jackson Lee
Matthew Lesko
Rick and Kathy Hilton
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