Pelosi joins tribute to Zhao Ziyang [View All]

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she read my mind...

Has George "Freedom" Bush commented on Zhao's death?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/pelosi.zhao/

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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."

She said Zhao was like the young man who stood before the tank in Tiananmen Square: "a courageous individual making a statement for freedom" and "maybe in death his message will even be stronger than it was in life."

"Troops may crush a protest, but they can never extinguish the flame of freedom that burns in every heart, here and in China," Pelosi said, adding, "So when our administration says that we are going to take freedom to the darkest corners of the earth, I hope that includes the largest country in the world as well."

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