Hezbollah As a Legitimate Political Force in the Peace Process? BS!!

The Bush Administration has begun making noise about accepting Hezbollah as part of the political mainstream in the Middle East if it were to lay down its arms and push for peace.

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!

Before Hezbollah is accepted into the mainstream, it ought to produce the people who engineered the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beruit in 1983. 241 American soldiers died in that deadly blast and led to the U.S. withdrawing its peacekeeping force from Beruit.

Hezbollah was responsible for that outrage. Those troops were there to stop the mass- killings that Hezbollah was carrying out against the Lebanese. So before we go welcoming Hezbollah to the mainstream, it has to prove that it wants peace and apologizes to the 241 families that its suicide bombers murdered and hands over those responsibile to either the U.S. or to the Hague.

This olive branch is inappropriate until Hezbollah gets out of the terrorism business permanently.