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I saw this story posted to the front page of Digg this morning. As usual, with this type of story on Digg, it’s not the story I actually care about, it’s the comments from the Digg community. I’ve taken the liberty of posting some of my favorites below, but I encourage you to wade through the morass of insanity yourself.

“I can´t truly understand how someone like John Mccain can be seen as a hero. What is more cowardly than sitting in an airplane dropping bombs on defenseless people. Evertime I hear someone mention the 50000 americans dead I think of the 2 to 5 million viatnamese dead, mostly civilians. It was a fucking genocide commited by one superpower on a poor third-world country. Jane Fonda was one of the real heroes. Thanks for making me go all hippie on you!” – Zirth

“Claiming that the Hanoi Hilton was not that bad and sitting in a VC anti-aircraft gun was treasonous. I think John McCain, who has permanent injuries from his torture, would disagree with Fonda. Not that I even like John McCain. But holy shit, you must be fucked up in the head to think of Jane Fonda as anything but a bitch. Just because the war was bullshit does not mean our enemies were anything better than evil.” – sultantravi

“‘Just because the war was bullshit does not mean our enemies were anything better than evil.’ They are no more evil than the guys we currently have torturing people.” – ryanissuper

“that traitor bitch should have been drug out into the street and shot during Vietnam. if i had the opportunity id push her in front of a bus.” – cobolnofun

“She denounced American POW’s coming home and describing the horrors they lived through as Professional Killers, Career Militants, and somehow weighing in at an amazing 90 lbs looking like football stars. Now I can understand saying that they were baby killers and stuff like that that was popular at the time freedom of speech and what not. but people who left for war weighing in at 170 and then coming back after being treated like a pow at 70lbs-90lbs and their in football shape? That’s just bullshit.” – Rastline

“The people who got us in to that war were the traitors. They wasted the lives of 50,000 fine men, many of whom did not want to go, and they achieved nothing.

Jane Fonda was just trying to save lives. Maybe she could have found a better way of going about it, but some people do not value the lives of one nations people over another.” – ryanissuper

“I attended a speech by an American POW from Vietnam. In the speech he stated that he, and others, were tortured because they wouldn’t speak with Jane Fonda and denounce the US. So, apparently she didn’t value the lives of our soldiers either. Denouncing war is one thing, but doing what she did is completely different.” – lifeandtimes