Dana Rohrabacher: “I rise in support of the intent of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) to send a message to India. I really actually…”

“I rise in support of the intent of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) to send a message to India. I really actually admire India. India is a very large country that was created in a period of turmoil after the decline and the dissolution of the British Empire, and India has managed over the years, with great hardship, to have some fundamentally democratic institutions; and we should all recognize that they have elections there and have struggled to have independent courts and free elections and some kind of freedom of speech. There have been ups and downs. In fact, I believe that the American business community has made a tragic error in focussing on Communist China as being that country which would be the recipient of aid and the recipient of investment over the years, when India was there and ready and willing to be a country that could increase the standard of living of its people by industrializing and making itself more prosperous. However, let us recognize that with that that India has made some major errors and some of them are based totally on ego. And when it comes to the Kashmir and the Punjab and Jammu, the Indian Government might as well not be a democracy. For people in those areas, India might as well be Nazi Germany.”