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...RICE: I'm certain that Hizballah has lots of rockets that it can fire. [But] ultimately Hizballah has to be, under several obligations of the Lebanese government, disarmed. And I would think you would want to deal with its heavy weapons, its missiles and so forth, its rockets early on. The Lebanese armed forces have to be the only armed authority in the country...
...RICE: I am confident that the Lebanese government understands its obligation to do that. I know that the Lebanese government doesn't want a circumstance again where you have militias running around that can bring this kind of destruction on the country. Now it's up to the international community to help them achieve that. And that means creating a stable environment...
...RICE: I think what would undermine American credibility is if we said something we didn't believe. We want an immediate cease-fire too. We just want one that isn't going to give way in a few days or weeks or months to more violence...
...RICE: Well, I would not say that it's become less dangerous. I would say that it was never stable. And the sense that things were going along just fine when this Administration began a new set of policies in the Middle East is shortsighted and ahistorical ... A failure in Lebanon? Compared to what? The false stability of Syrian troops occupying the country for 30 years...
...RICE: Well, I guess I would ask the 300,000 people who ended up in mass graves what they think...