Communist Minority Leader

I'm not sure exactly how to take this story, but I do know that Ms. Pelosi is a complete tool. Read on.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a gathering of Chinese community and human rights groups Saturday to honor the late Zhao Ziyang, former premier of China.

Zhao, who had been under house arrest for refusing to shoot participants in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, died January 17 in Beijing.

About 100 people held a moment of silence for Zhao on Washington's Mall and hailed him as "a great leader of China."

Tao Wang, spokesman for the groups, said international rallies were being held to say goodbye to Zhao and to "bid farewell to the Chinese Communist Party."

Pelosi said that the Chinese government has kept the circumstances of Zhao's death a secret from its people "but the more they tried to suppress his message and his courage, the stronger they make him."

You'll excuse me if I'm skeptical of this. A former Premier of China (read: high level Communist dictator) refuses to crack down on one protest (likely because it was so public; the EU is only now considering an end to the arms sanctions that resulted from Tiananmen Square), and suddenly he's a great leader and some sort of champion of human rights and democracy?

Riiiiight...