This just made my day, heh heh

God, how that must (*)(*)(*)(*) them off.


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A note: The medal has been repeatedly erroneously called the Congressional Medal of Honor, and also by you - that medal is reserved as the highest award for bravery by US soldiers. Fox got it right, it's the Congressional Gold Medal.

As long as it pisses off Red China I'm not overly concerned with the semantics. I'm just happy to see our government take a real stand for once.



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Not to be cynical, but it may have done just to tweak China. Like they tweak us by keeping their currency low and preventing the UN from passing any major sanctions against Iran. In other words, it's not a stand at all. Or maybe it is. Who knows? Doesn't matter anyway I suppose.

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The Dalai Lama deserves the award...our reasons for giving it to him have nothing to do with the PRC anyway. The fact that it pisses them off is just a bonus.

So no, I dont think it was done specifically to "tweak" China...I think the desire to give him the medal was sincere and would have been done even if China didnt care at all.

I wish we'd start doing the same type of things with Taiwan.

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What stand ??? Come on!! The Dali was forced to say that he is not in favor of independence just some form of "automony". The president made much about how we suport religious freedom. Yeh Ok !! BFD ! Yacaty yak here is your nice medal Mr. Lama now get the yak out of here.!

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The Dalai Lama is a man of peace and honor.

I am very happy that he received the award - and let me also make it official, that I give President Bush a

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thumbs-up ( - there ain't a bigger smiley, if there was I'd use it)

- anyway, Bushie gets a "big" thumbs-up for a) giving the award, and b) for not using it as an opportunity to hurl pointed barbs in Chairman Hu's direction.

Nope, Bushie said his few words on China, but really, he was very statesman-like at that presentation, I saw the whole thing, and it even "surprised" me - I mean, Bushie looks pretty darn good when he's behaving himself, doesn't he?

It's a shame that the Dalai Lama has to be perceived as such a "political" figure in China, because even though he does support Tibetan independence and all that, the two peoples really have much more in common than they do apart.

Yeah, well - a thought occurred to me as I was watching that ceremony, 'cause in spite of the his Holiness' broken English, what he was saying came through loud and clear - and that is,

Why is it that some of these governments are so scared of returning power to the people? In some cases it's a military strongman, in others it's a power cadre, but the thing they all have in common is that they "don't like elections". Ond of the common arguments you'll always hear around this is, "corruption". You know, like, "the people always elect corrupt officials, and the only way we can prevent that is not to have elections".

How's that for bass-ackwards "logic"?

THIS from YOU??

He does deserve the award. And as a Buddhist I'm glad he got it. For a leader he's a good one. I don't care about the other stuff. Just wind.

Fair enough. Can't really argue the point.

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Giving the guy an award despite the fact that it pisses off Red China. I thought that was obvious.

The last few years I was beginning to wonder.


And yet, the PRC was still pissed off about it. Apparently that qualifier doesnt mean as much to them as you seem to think it does.



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