WASHINGTON - President Bush, raising Beijing's ire, presented the Dalai Lama on Wednesday with the U.S. Congress' highest civilian honor and urged Chinese leaders to welcome the monk to Beijing.
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The exiled spiritual head of Tibet's Buddhists by his side, Bush praised a man he called a "universal symbol of peace and tolerance, a shepherd of the faithful and a keeper of the flame for his people."
"America cannot look to the plight of the religiously oppressed and close their eyes or turn away," Bush said at the U.S. Capitol, where he personally handed the Dalai Lama the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal.
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