<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">United States of America</a> President <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> addresses the media at the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_State_Department&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="United States State Department (page does not exist)">United States State Department</a> after a series of meetings today discussing America's foreign policy. "America recognizes that civilians in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lebanon" class="mw-redirect" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel">Israel</a> have suffered from the current violence, and we recognize that responsibility for this suffering lies with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah" class="mw-redirect" title="Hezbollah">Hezbollah</a>. It was an unprovoked attack by Hezbollah on Israel that started <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict" title="2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict">this conflict</a>," said President Bush. "Hezbollah terrorists targeted Israeli civilians with daily rocket attacks. Hezbollah terrorists used Lebanese civilians as human shields, sacrificing the innocent in an effort to protect themselves from Israeli response."
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Eric_Draper" class="extiw" title="w:en:Eric Draper"><span title="American photographer">Eric Draper</span></a>
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Taken on 14 August 2006
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