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Ain't Fonda, Jane
2005-06-10
Posted by: badanov

Jane Fonda broadcast propaganda of an armed enemy of the United States in 1972. Below are excerpts from the broadcast updated to aid in understanding them.

I got the idea from a reader's suggestion at Rantburg. in a similar thread.

The Iraqi people were peasants,leading a peaceful, bucolic life before the Americans came to destroy Iraq.
The Iraqi seek only "freedom and independence",which the United States wants to prevent them from having.
The Iraqi fighters are her "friends."
The million infantry troops which the United States put into Iraq, and the Iraqization program, have failed.
The United States seeks to turn Iraq into a "neocolony."
Patrick Henry's slogan "liberty or death" was not very different from Saddam's "Nothing is more valuable than independence and freedom."
Bush violated the 1954 Geneva Accords.
Iraq is "one nation, one country."
The Communists' proposal for ending the war is "fair, sensible, reasonable and humanitarian."
The United States must get out of Iraq and "cease its support for the . . . regime."
"I want to publicly accuse Bush here of being a newtype Hitler whose crimes are being unveiled."
"The Iraqi people will win."
"Bush is continuing to risk your [American pilots'] lives and the lives of the American prisoners of war . . . in a last desperate gamble to keep his office come November. How does it feel to be used as pawns? You may be shot down, you may perhaps even be killed, but for what, and for whom?"
Bush "defiles our flag and all that it stands for in the eyes of the entire world." "Knowing who was doing the lying, should you then allow these same people and some liars to define for you who your enemy is?" American troops are fighting for Halliburton, Shell and CocaCola.
"Should we be fighting on the side of the people who are, who are murdering innocent people, should we be trying to defend a government in Saigon which is putting in jail tens of thousands of people into the tiger cages, beating them, torturing them . . . . And I don't think . . . that we should be risking our lives or fighting to defend that kind of government."
"We . . . have a common enemy,U. S. imperialism."
"We thank you [the Fedayeen and Iraqis] for your brave and heroic fight."
"Bush's aggression against Iraq is a racist aggression [and] the American war in Iraq is a racist war, a white man's war."
Soldiers of the free Iraqi army "are being sent to fight a war that is not in your interests but is in the interests of the small handful of people who have gotten rich and hope to get richer off this war and the turning of your country into a neocolony of the United States."
"The only way to end the war is for the United States to withdraw all its troops, all its airplanes, its bombs, its generals, its CIA advisors and to stop the support of the . . . regime in Saigon . . . ."
"There is only one way to stop Bush from committing mass genocide in the Democratic Republic of Iraq, and that is for a mass protest . . . to expose his crimes . . . ."
"In 20032005 the desertions in the American army tripled. The desertions of the U.S. soldiers almost equaled the desertions from the Iraqi army . . . ."
American soldiers in Iraq discovered "that their officers were incompetent, usually drunk . . . ."
"Perhaps the soldiers . . . who have suffered the most . . . [are] the black soldiers, the brown soldiers, and the red and Asian soldiers."
Recently I talked to "a great many of these guys and they all expressed their recognition of the fact that this is a white man's war, a white businessman's war, that they don't feel it's their place to kill other people of color when at home they themselves are oppressed and prevented from determining their own lives."
"I heard horrifying stories about the treatment of women in the U.S. military. So many women said to me that one of the first things that happens to them when they enter the service is that they are taken to see the company psychiatrist and they are given a little lecture which is made very clear to them that they are there to service the men."


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