SOME don't consider Hizbollah a terrorist organization

a story like this would never make it into print in the u.s... it's so far from the approved talking points, it would be spiked immediately...

The Lebanese-based militant group Hezbollah should be removed from Canada's list of banned terrorist organizations, two Canadian MPs say.

Boris Wrzesnewskyj and Peggy Nash made the comments Sunday during a fact-finding mission to southern Lebanon as Israeli troops continue to withdraw from the region following 34 days of conflict.

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Wrzesnewskyj, a Liberal MP from Toronto, says the visit has shown him how integrated Hezbollah is into Lebanese society. In the interest of peace, he said Canada should reconsider its 2002 decision to place the group on its list of banned terrorist groups.

"Hezbollah has a political wing, they have members of parliament, two [cabinet] ministers," said Wrzesnewskyj.

"You want to encourage the politicians of this military organization, you want to encourage the political wing, so that the centre of gravity shifts to them."

Wrzesnewskyj compared the situation in Lebanon to the decades of sectarian violence by the Irish Republican Army.

"If there wasn't a possibility for London to negotiate with Sinn Fein [the IRA's political party], we'd still have bombings in Northern Ireland," he said.

why in god's name can't we have discussions like this in the u.s...? i can just see two u.s. congressmen making this kind of suggestion... they would immediately be branded as terrorist sympathizers, traitors to the u.s. war on terror, and accused of being personally allied with osama bin laden... by the time their congressional colleagues, the media, and the wingnuts finished with them, there would be nothing left...

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