http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7349099/

 

Fonda: ?Hanoi Jane?

visit was a mistake

But doesn't regret entire trip;

also says she procured call girls

Jane Fonda sings an antiwar song near Hanoi during the Vietnam War in July 1972. Fonda, seated on an anti-aircraft gun and wearing a Vietnamese-made ao-dai pantaloon and blouse, came to "encourage" North Vietnamese troops. She now says the incident was a "betrayal" of U.S. soldiers.

MSNBC News Services

Updated: 7:39 p.m. ET March 31, 2005NEW YORK - Jane Fonda says her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site, an incident that brought her the nickname ?Hanoi Jane,? was a ?betrayal? of American forces and of the ?country that gave me privilege.?

 

?The image of Jane Fonda, ?Barbarella,? Henry Fonda?s daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine,? Fonda told Lesley Stahl in a ?60 Minutes? interview that will air Sunday night.

 

Fonda, whose memoir ?Jane Fonda: My Life So Far? comes out next week, said she did not regret meeting with American POWs in North Vietnam or making broadcasts on Radio Hanoi. ?Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war,? she said.

 

But she said she wouldn't make the same sort of broadcasts in Iraq today.

 

"I don't think it's the same situation at all. When I went [to North Vietnam] ... we had been fighting in Vietnam for eight years. The majority of Americans ... [and] Congress opposed the war. It was a desperate time," she said, according to CBS News' Web site.

 

She's apparently the last person on earth to realize how stupid of a move that was....

It sure took long enough. Most Vietnam vets that you will talk to still hate her for that. I remember my Drivers' Ed teacher, who was a Vet, was very very angry at her for that trip.

She should've been booted from this damn country.

She should've been booted from this damn country.

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Agreed, at least that much should have been done.....

I'm all for protest against war and stuff, but fraternizing with the enemy is not cool. At the very least she should've been put in jail for treason.

I give her credit for willingly admitting her mistake.

Fonda, whose memoir ?Jane Fonda: My Life So Far? comes out next week, said she did not regret meeting with American POWs in North Vietnam or making broadcasts on Radio Hanoi. ?Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war,? she said.

eh, she's obviously got an ulterior motive for waiting until now to make headlines by coming clean and apologizing for her behavior.

 

pete rose, anyone?

If she liked North Viet Nam so much and the US was doing such bad things. She should have moved to Hanoi. I would personally help her pack. Ooorah!