Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Across which country? The US or Iraq?

The actress, 67, said the protest trip would begin next March and she would travel on a bus powered by vegetable oil.

I know it's trite, but you really can't make this stuff up.

Fonda has not commented on any war since her controversial anti-Vietnam efforts, which involved posing on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun that fired at American aircraft. The resulting photograph triggered national outrage and led to the actress being dubbed Hanoi Jane.

Earlier this year, Fonda told CBS the picture amounted to the "largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine".

Oh yeah?

Presumably she now has judgment enough not to be photographed with Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Not at her age.

I think it's clear that this is a move by Karl Rove to discredit the anti-war "movement".

Update: From normblog:

Good to know she'll be excited, and running on vegetable oil, while campaigning for the people of Iraq to be left to the benign attentions of the 'insurgents'.

Well, she was sufficiently excited campaigning for the South Vietnamese to be left to the benign attentions of the totalitarians to the North. If she succeeds again maybe we'll get more boat people out of it.