Fillon in Vietnam

Update: Many thanks to a reader and many contrite apologies to all. I had inadvertantly called Hanoi "Ho Chi Minh City" in my original post. Of course, Ho Chi Minh City is NOT Hanoi, but Saigon. Also, my reader points out that no one uses the name Ho Chi Minh City anymore. The post has been duly modified.

On November 13, Prime Minister François Fillon paid a visit to Jane Fonda City - Hanoi. There he laid a wreath on the tomb of the man America could not defeat, thanks in part to Ms. Fonda, the left-wing media that told blatant lies about the war, the student uprisings and the vacillations of two American administrations, one Democrat, the other Republican. Yves Daoudal writes:

Four days after celebrating the fall of the Berlin Will, Prime Minister François Fillon paid a visit on Friday to Hanoi, to the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh, hero of Vietnamese independence and father of the Communist nation. He then participated in a forum where he praised the merits of the "new Vietnam", no longer a stranger to the market economy.

Accompanied by a part of his delegation, the prime minister, his face somber for the occasion, placed a wreath at the entrance of the mausoleum, a large grey building in the heart of the capital, before standing in silence before the remains of the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

The two comments to the post indicate a belief that he had to swallow a lot of bile to go through with this ordeal. Of course, he was on mission from his boss, who had just entered into a major deal with the Chinese Communist Party.