The Bush administration would accept a political role for the Lebanese group Hizbollah if it disarmed, U.S. officials said on Thursday. But the officials denied a New York Times report that the administration had made a sharp policy shift and was grudgingly going along with efforts by France and the United Nations to steer the party into the Lebanese political mainstream. “The report suggests that our view has changed on Hizbollah. It has not,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters traveling with President Bush to Louisville, Kentucky.Full Story
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