Bill honoring Fonda hits snag in GA Senate

[Charlie Brown]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/0316metlegfonda.html

Jane Fonda's name still raises the blood pressure of many Georgia veterans more than 30 years after her famous pose on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.

Sen. Steen Miles (D-Decatur) introduced a resolution recognizing the two-time Academy Award-winning actress for her efforts to help women and children globally, particularly her work as the founder and chairwoman of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.

But Sen. John Douglas (R-Covington), a retired Army major and the chairman of the Senate Veterans and Military Committee, stood as the Senate was adjourning and briefly voiced his strong opposition to the resolution. His words provoked a strong response from Miles, who argued that Fonda's work deserved recognition.

Douglas had harsh words later in the day for Fonda, who has said she regretted the gesture on the anti-aircraft gun. "I think Jane Fonda is less worthy than any living American to be honored by our Senate and the people of Georgia," Douglas said. "It starts off with her actions during the Vietnam War and it continues today. No amount of good work now will make up for her past actions against the military and our country."

[MercutioATC]

1. Why is this even being debated??

Georgia has nothing better to do than introduce legislation to honor old movie stars??

:wtf:

[PSPS]

2. He should be a ventriloquist!

> "I think Jane Fonda is less worthy than any living American to be honored by our Senate and the people of Georgia," Douglas said. "It starts off with her actions during the Vietnam War and it continues today. No amount of good work now will make up for her past actions against the military and our country."

And to think he was able to say that with his mouth full of AWOL Bush's semen!

[IndianaGreen]

3. And the Vietnam War was such a glorious adventure!

We still have people alive today that were severely damaged physically and psychologically in that wasteful conflict, a war that came about as the result of government lies and deception. A war that a cowardly Congress failed to end once the deception came to light.

[saracat]

4. No amount of good work will make up for a girl posing with an

anti aircraft gone yet taking a nzation to war based on a lie is an honest mistake? I hate these bastards. I really do.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Fonda grew up, so why can't the ex-Major grow up and...

get over it.

Bullshit like this tells more about clowns like Douglas than about Fonda, who has, over the years, probably done a hell of a lot more for a hell of a lot more people than this GI Joe who's complaining.

But, hey, if you ain't part of the military, you just ain't shit.

[David__77]

6. What Fonda did was right.

She should not have apologized or voiced regrets. The Vietnamese people deserved people's support in their freedom struggle against the US. Two million Vietnamese died in that war, blood on the US' hands. Landmines still kill people there, yet more blood debt still unpaid. Those anti-aircraft guns were protecting the children of Vietnam from air pirates like John McCain, whose job it was to kill innocent Vietnamese people at a safe distance.

[Bigmack]

7. Why is it that these assholes get mad....

at Jane Fonda? She didn't send our people to die in a useless war.

This is a perfect example of how the RW can get on top of an issue, frame that issue their own way, and then manipulate the gullible into ignoring the big story and concentrating on the insignificant.

I also love the bullshit theory that the hippies lost the war. They weren't really stoned and having all that sex in the dirt... they really were a massive political force that just overwhelmed both parties and pulled us out of a war we were winning. Shit!

How about some of these dumbasses blaming Johnson and Nixon and McNamara and Kissinger and the fucking generals?