Jane Fonda to stump for Iraq pullout

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, speaking Saturday at an event in Santa Fe, N.M., promoting her book, “My Life So Far.”

Fonda said her antiwar tour in March 2006 will use a bus that runs on “vegetable oil.”

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

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.