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A recent study by the New America Foundation "places the United States at the top of the list of the world's leading arms-selling nations in 2007, accounting for more than 45 percent of all global weapons transfers." The Bush administration "signed arms sales agreements...worth more than $32 billion last year, including with one or more parties involved in 20 of the world's 27 major conflicts."

Can you connect the dots to see why the Bush Administration is buddying up to the Dalai Lama? Think of it as the latest chapter in an ongoing sales and marketing effort to create the new Taiwan-of-the-west - another place to sell billions of dollars in weaponry, should we succeed in leveraging off another chunk of China. The only exiled government of Tibet is the one we created starting in 1956 when the CIA, under a directive from the Eisenhower Administration, trained, armed and funded revolutionaries within Tibet - then abandoned them like we did in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.