Jane Fonda to Oppose Iraq War on Bus Tour

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) _ Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq. <br/><br/>``I can't go into any detail

Monday, July 25th 2005, 10:44 am

By: News On 6

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) _ Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.

``I can't go into any detail except to say that it's going to be pretty exciting,'' she said.

Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on ``vegetable oil.'' She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.

They plan to return to the Santa Fe area, where she was promoting her book, ``My Life So Far'' on Saturday.

Prompted by a question from the audience, Fonda said war veterans that she has met on a nationwide book tour have encouraged her to break her silence on the Iraq war.

``I've decided I'm coming out,'' she said.

Hundreds of people in the audience cheered loudly when Fonda announced her intentions to join the anti-Iraq war movement.

``I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam,'' she said. ``I carry a lot of baggage from that.''

Fonda incited controversy in July 1972 when she was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun while on a tour of the country to drum up support to end the war.