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"It is my understanding that they have provided such assurances," Gates told a Pentagon news conference. officials say has inflamed insurgent violence and caused many American troop casualties, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday. WASHINGTON - Iran apparently has assured the Iraqi government that it will stop the flow into Iraq of bomb-making materials and other weaponry that U.S. Gates: Iran has promised Iraq it'll halt the flow of weapons In the October AP-Ipsos poll, Americans gave Congress a 22 percent approval rating. In the House, Democrats don't have the votes to overturn another veto. _ The Senate yesterday again passed that measure, 64-30. She noted that the president has vetoed Democrat-led efforts to wind down the war, to broaden stem-cell-research, and to expand a children's health program. She blames Bush and his Republican allies. "If you asked me in a phone call, as ardent a Democrat as I am, I would disapprove of Congress as well," Pelosi said. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., agrees Congress isn't doing much, but for different reasons. WASHINGTON - President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders yesterday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the world paid a terrible price" then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.īush accused Congress of stalling important pieces of the fight to prevent new terrorist attacks by jeopardizing confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, a key part of his national security team failing to act on a bill governing eavesdropping on terrorist suspects, and moving too slowly to approve spending measures for the Iraq war, Pentagon and veterans programs.
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The blast killed 70,000 to 100,000 people and injured countless others.īush says Democrats aren't helping him fight terrorism The plane and its crew of 14 dropped the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb on the morning of Aug. It was the first use of a nuclear weapon in wartime. Tibbets' historic mission in the plane named for his mother marked the beginning of the end of World War II and eliminated the need for what military planners feared would have been an extraordinarily bloody invasion of Japan. Tibbets had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest, said Gerry Newhouse, a longtime friend. He later moved to Columbus, where he ran an air-taxi service until he retired in 1985. Tibbets retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general in 1966. He was 92 and insisted for six decades after the war that he had no regrets about the mission and slept just fine at night. Paul Tibbets, who dropped atomic bomb on Japan, diesĬOLUMBUS, Ohio - Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died yesterday.