[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 28 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H1271]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           U.S. SHOULD NOT SUPPORT HEZBOLLAH ROLE IN LEBANON

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, today, on the front page of the New York 
Times, there is a story that says ``U.S. Called Ready to See Hezbollah 
in Lebanon Role. A Sharp Policy Reversal.''
  The article states, ``After years of campaigning against Hezbollah, 
the radical Shiite Muslim party in Lebanon, as a terrorist pariah, the 
Bush administration is grudgingly going along with efforts by France 
and the UN to steer the party into the Lebanese political mainstream, 
administration officials say.''
  Administration officials say, what a mistake. What a mistake to deal 
with terrorists. President Bush has repeatedly said that we should not 
deal with terrorists. There are no good terrorists. There are no good 
terrorists. All terrorists are bad. Hezbollah has American blood on its 
hands. It killed more than 200 U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983 and is 
responsible for hundreds and hundreds of killings of Israeli citizens.
  Resolution 1559 of the UN Security Council which passed a few months 
ago, sponsored by the U.S. and France, says that Syria should get out 
of Lebanon, that all militias, including Hezbollah, should be disarmed.
  Why are we changing policy now? We should not deal with terrorists. 
We should not compromise with terrorists. Hezbollah is a terrorist 
organization. We are moving in this body to pass a resolution calling 
on the Europeans to label Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, to dry 
up their funds.
  Terrorists should not be dealt with. The administration is making a 
mistake.

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