Not fond of Hanoi Jane.

ITEM: In the San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun for April 9, John Weeks commented: "In a stunning development..., actress Jane Fonda has apologized for her antiwar actions during the Vietnam era. In interviews to promote sales of her new autobiography, Fonda reverses her vehement position of more than 30 years and says she is sorry for a 1972 propaganda visit to North Vietnam, calling it 'the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine.'"

ITEM: Reporting on Jane Fonda's interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," CBS News on April 3 said that the actress, now 67, "has written a book about [her life and Vietnam War protests], and she has clone an interview with Correspondent Leslie Stahl that, like the book [My Life So Far], is sometimes painfully candid and honest. You'll hear her apologize for some of what she did in Vietnam...."

CORRECTION: Treason is more than a lapse in judgment. When you travel to the enemy's capital in wartime to praise the Communists responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans and torturing U.S. POWs, call American pilots "war criminals," charge your own country with "genocide," make repeated propaganda broadcasts for the enemy, including urging U.S. pilots to disobey orders, and pose seated on an enemy anti-aircraft gun--your belated wish that your photograph sitting on the anti-aircraft gun had not become so embarrassing is hollow and spurious.

Fonda's latest blathering was no admission of guilt, and the so-called apology was as counterfeit as her treasonous acts were indisputable. This was hardly Hanoi Jane's conscience kicking in, and her remarks are nothing new; she issued similar half-hearted and very qualified regrets in 1988 and 2000. In her book, Fonda shows no remorse for her propaganda excursion, saying, "I do not regret that I went. My only regret about the trip was that I was photographed sitting in a North Vietnamese antiaircraft gun site."

Before that North Vietnam visit (when she was 34), Fonda had parroted the Communist line for years. Major Fred Cherry, an Air Force officer held as a POW, "heard Jane Fonda's voice over a camp public address system in October 1967 as he was in the midst of an extended torture siege; he became so enraged by her allegations of cowardice on the part of American pilots because they bombed at night and killed women and children that he 'tried to tear [his] irons from the walls.'"

Some American POWs refused to meet with Fonda while she was in Vietnam, and they were then tortured in an attempt to coerce them into meeting with her. Speaking of Fonda and Ramsey Clark (the former U.S. Attorney General who also went to Hanoi shortly after Fonda), former POW Col. Larry Guarino wrote: "We couldn't help but wonder why our government failed to prosecute those visitor-traitors!" Alter their release, when the harrowing accounts of the POWs became widely known, Fonda still called them "hypocrites and liars"--continuing to deny that they had been mistreated. "We have no reason to believe that U.S. Air Force officers tell the truth," said Hanoi Jane. "They are professional killers."

Henry Mark Holtzer, co-author with Erika Holtzer of Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, was on target on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country": "[Fonda] committed treason. She exploited and misused American POWs. She gave the North Vietnamese communists, with whom we were then at war, propaganda that American POWs endured unimaginable torture not to give them, she gave it to them for free. And, indeed, she caused the deaths of American fighting men and the deaths of our allies as well."