[headsonpikes]

Also from her site:

“In my anger at the torture story that was being allowed to spread, at how the entire situation was being manipulated, I made a mistake I deeply regret. I said that the POWs claiming torture were liars, hypocrites, and pawns.

I said, “I’m quite sure that there were incidents of torture…but the pilots who are saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic, I believe that’s a lie.”[8]

What I didn’t know at the time was that although there had been no torture after 1969, before then there had been systematic torture of some POWS. One of the more hawkish of them, James Stockdale, wrote in his book, In Love and War, that no more than ten percent of the pilots received at least ninety percent of the punishment.[9] John Hubbell, in P.O.W.: A Definitive History of the American Prisoner-of-War Experience in Vietnam, agreed, and affirmed the fact that torture stopped in 1969.[10]

When the POWs came home, some who had been there longest told the press how they clogged up prison toilets and sewers, refused to come when ordered, or follow prison rules. One of the most famous, Jeremiah Denton, said, “We forced them [the guards] to be brutal to us.”[11] I relay this not to minimize the hardships that the POWs endured, nor to excuse it– but to attempt belatedly to restore a greater depth of insight into the entire POW experience with their captors

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Why those ungrateful POWs, clogging up the toilets, and all!

I’m sure this deceitful POS Fonda has rationalized her appalling behavior to her own narcissistic satisfaction.

“...but to attempt belatedly to restore a greater depth of insight into the entire POW experience with their captors”

Vomit - utter vomit. What an appalling human being she is!

[Yardstick]

I noticed that when I read it earlier. I can't believe she actually put it in writing. IMO it's worthy of a fresh new controversy of its own, but she is probably spared by the fact that few people will read that far into her post.

She tries to cover it with this:

I relay this not to minimize the hardships that the POWs endured, nor to excuse it– but to attempt belatedly to restore a greater depth of insight into the entire POW experience with their captors.

The problem is that its way too obvious that minimizing and excusing is exactly what she is doing, for the sake of rationalizing what she did.