Ekstrom, the damn jester seems to have tried showing his basic journalism skills by putting forth only what he wanted to read and see, but sadly the rebuttals and the analysis part lacked both: the research and substance. Did you even read all my posts before putting up such lame lines for which the answers were already embedded above??

I tried reading what you posted and then re-read it and again re-read it, but it made no sense...What is it you're trying to say: "Greed and corruption has no room here as he was merely 2 years of age when he was recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama. Would a 2 year old boy ever think about politics and money?? Also, when boys his age were being boys, he lived a life totally submerged into the religious texts." - So, if anybody is given the opportunity as he has been given, wouldn't he/she be decorated with awards and medals just as he has been? And is it not that whatever he has achieved, it is not on the basis of merit and his intelligence and just because he was the lucky or the chosen one?" - I don't even see what you'e getting at here. Are you saying that greatness was thrust upon him and not achieved/earned (sorry for using the Bard's words here)?? If you feel he's been conferred with all the awards for SOLELY being the leader/religious head of the Tibetan people (and not a learned philosopher / theologian), then using your analysis, shouldn't the King of Nepal be awarded a similar Nobel prize for being a reincarnation of Vishnu and the leader of the Nepalese people all over...Hell, why don't we give Jigme Singay Wangchuk the pulitzer? Or even better, lets give the Ayotollah the Raman Magsaysay award and a consolation congressional gold medal in the memory of the late great Haile Selassie.  I am thoroughly amused to see where your rhetoric is coming from.

Next, you write: "We all know that even though The Dalai sees Bush as a warmonger, the sense of compassion is so great within him that he has forgiven him like he'd do to any normal human out there" - First of all, I don't know that, may be you do, but I don't. I also don't know what compassion compells him to forgive Bush and 'Mao' but what I know is he ultimately vanishes deep into the Man Sarobar lake when it comes to asking Bush to take his hands off of Iraq. Even if he does, he is not going to pursue Bush. Does this not make him a politician? Where does his humanity go when he can ask for a free Tibet but not for a free Iraq? - Did you even go through my whole post before posting what you did here, f-lazy?? Its really distressing that you ask for an answer when its was right there in the very next line. Let me quote it back again: "The Dalai did mention that the war in Iraq was not the solution when it started but of course, he had to tone it down a little as the US is among the few nations who has taken in his people amid Chinese pressure, awarded immigation rights and treated them as their own". - Also you're talking about why he doesn't ask for a Free Iraq?? Hell, when has the Dalai Lama ever asked for a Free Tibet to begin with?? All he wants is an autonomous government which Iraq already has (they're in a better shape than his govt. is). The US and the world recognizes the current Iraqi cabinet, but its sad that China and the rest of the world still do not recognize the TGIE.

Finally, you last para to be demolished by the one and only Samsara goes as such: ""Hell, in Nepal even the Tibetans born there are not given citizenships nor any land ownership rights, can you fuggin believe that?? " - Nowhere in the world your offsprings get citizenship of that country if you declare yourself as a refugee and stay in a camp, not at least in Nepal. But anyways, who is kidding who here, how hard was it, or is it to get a Nepalese citizenship and who hasn't gotten it?" - Answer honestly, How long have you lived in Nepal? 20 yrs- 25 yrs? And you still don't know about the greviences the Tibetans go through. I'm talking about the well to do Tibs who still use the citizenship that’s not theirs "legall"y. These kids never lived or grew up in camps so why are they being harassed in getting their citizenships. On a easier research to do, Why don't you talk to your Tibetan friends (if you have any here in the US) and be surprised to find out that most of them have NEVER EVER lived in a camp and are still using citizenships that name them gurung, tamang or whatever. And about camps, who lives in them anymore? Except for the elderly ones, most of them have moved out and yet the ones born outside continue to be harrased in both the govt passport issuing offices and the citizenship offices. Go out there into the great wide open like Tom Petty did and find out from your Tib friends

Next time, could you atleast read before posting your wiseazz comments as it really is a waste of time repeating everything from scratch over and over again. Had to do the same for Sheetalb and then to you?? Man, Where do these jokers come outta??