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Originally Posted by moosenose
I'd disagree with this statement. A fair number of Americans (Hanoi Jane and her ilk springs to mind) either didn't know who the enemy was during the Cold War or else didn't care and supported our enemies anyway. Was it appeasement or was it treason? I lean towards thinking it's treason, but that's just me.
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I am glad to read that you are cocksure about your talking points, Rush......
I mean moosenose, what research have you done to be so sure about the political details of a 32 year old event?
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<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040322&c=2&s=hayden">http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040322&c=2&s=hayden</a>
Posted March 4, 2004
<b>You Gotta Love Her</b>
by Tom Hayden
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Erased from public memory is the fact that Fonda's purpose was to use her celebrity to put a spotlight on the possible bombing of Vietnam's system of dikes. Her charges were dismissed at the time by George H.W. Bush, then America's ambassador to the United Nations, who complained of a "carefully planned campaign by the North Vietnamese and their supporters to give worldwide circulation to this falsehood." But Fonda was right and Bush was lying, as revealed by the April-May 1972 White House transcripts of Richard Nixon talking to Henry Kissinger about "this shit-ass little country":
NIXON: We've got to be thinking in terms of an all-out bombing attack.... I'm thinking of the dikes.
KISSINGER: I agree with you.
NIXON: ...Will that drown people?
KISSINGER: About two hundred thousand people.
It was in order to try to avert this catastrophe that Fonda, whose popular "FTA" road show (either "Fun, Travel, Adventure" or "Fuck the Army") was blocked from access to military bases, gave interviews on Hanoi radio describing the human consequences of all-out bombing by B-52 pilots five miles above her. After her visit, the US bombing of the dike areas slowed down, "allowing the Vietnamese at last to repair damage and avert massive flooding," according to Mary Hershberger.
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