Steve Pearce: “To my internal shame, I was invited to mainland China in the late sixties because of my campus radicalism. I went there…”

“To my internal shame, I was invited to mainland China in the late sixties because of my campus radicalism. I went there with the greatest hope to help fight the war for communism and to spread it. I was not in China more than 30 minutes before I realized it was one of the deepest and biggest scams I had ever seen. Mr. Speaker, we defeated communism for the most part in this world because of the efforts of Ronald Reagan. But I feel like there is as much lack of truth in this argument about al Qaeda and Iraq and the dangers that terrorism presents to the United States and to the world today as there was back in the 1960s and 1970s about the Communist regimes throughout the world. There is much work to be done if we are to find freedom and liberty for more people.”