Bush Calls Europe for Confronting Hezbollah

Bush Calls Europe for Confronting Hezbollah

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14/06/2008 U.S. President George Bush called Friday for fighting "Hezbollah supported by Syria and Iran" emphasizing the need to support the Iranian and Syrian peoples against their regimes. "We stand by the peaceful citizens in those nations which deserve better than what they have now, and we must reject those countries supporting terrorism for the benefit of local and global security," Bush said during a visit to France. He reiterated that "Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons." "As in the Cold War, we must also prevail in a wider struggle -- a battle of ideas," Bush said. "The rise of free and prosperous societies in the broader Middle East is essential to peace in the 21st century, just as the rise of a free and prosperous Europe was essential to peace in the 20th century." "Europe and America must stand with reformers, democratic leaders, and millions of ordinary people across the Middle East who seek a future of hope, liberty, and peace in Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Holy Land, Iran and Syria -- and Iraq," he added. Bush who is nearing the end of his two-term presidency meets with Sarkozy on Saturday.