-- america did -- for the workers in tkpwa -- in gdansk and sol tkarry in -- and solidarity in lech walesa, and we were not afraid as ronald reagan was not, to go to the per lynn wall and say take down -- go to the berlin wall and say take down this wall and call the evil empire what it was -- an evil empire. whaft ironies of this situation that i'd like to address very briefly is that president mahmoud ahmadinejad's top political advisor said thursday that the united states will regret its interference is if iran's disputed election. in other words, our president says he doesn't want to -- quote -- "meddle" and of course they're accusing us of doing exactly that. he said -- the advisor said i hope in the case of the elections they realize their interference as a mistake and they don't repeat this mistake. they'll certainly regret this. they'll have problems reestablishing relations with iran." mr. president, the history of this country, july 4, 1776, we affirmed the fundamental right that all people throughout the world have, and that is the inalienable rights granted by our creator to li

not much different from lech walesa of poland or havel of czechoslovakia. when he died on april 151989, thousands of chinese students began a peaceful protest in tennessee square in his honor and call support for -- in tiananmen square. protesters called for nothing more than a dialogue with their government and party leaders on how to combat corruption and how to accelerate economic and political reforms like freedom of expression and democracy. more than a million people would eventually gather in tiananmen square in the shadow of the forbidden city and the monument in front of chairman mao's mausoleum. that 1 million people that congregated, that was just in bay which i think. protests spread -- in beijing. protests spread across city after city, community after community. on the night of june 3, 1989, 15,000 soldiers with armored tanks storm tiananmen square. on june 4 the chinese red army fired upon the protesters and those in the surrounding areas. on june 5, as the crackdown continued, more than 300,000 -- 300,000 -- chinese troops amassed in and a