Washington ? President Bush, attending the dedication of a memorial to an estimated 100 million victims of communist regimes, Tuesday compared the fight against radical Islam to the Cold War battle against totalitarian communism.

President Bush speaks at the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C. Bush drew parallels between the tyranny of communist rule and the terrorism campaigns waged today.

In warning Americans that “evil is real and must be confronted,” Bush also equated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with the tyrannical rule imposed on residents of countries like China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union.

“Like the communists, the terrorists and radicals who have attacked our nation are followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom, crushes all dissent, has expansionist ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims,” he said at the ceremony.

“Like the communists, our new enemies believe the innocent can be murdered to serve a radical vision. Like the communists, our new enemies are dismissive of free peoples, claiming that those of us who live in liberty are weak and lack the resolve to defend our free way of life.”

The ceremony was held on the 20th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, when he implored Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Two years later, the wall fell.

The Victims of Communism Memorial is a bronze “Goddess of Democracy” statue. It is a replica of a replica – a reproduction of the papier-mache statue that Chinese students modeled on the Statue of Liberty and carried into Tiananmen Square during pro-democracy protests in 1989.