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SYRACUSE, N.Y. President Barack Obama has phoned a Georgia woman credited with helping prevent a school shooting to thank her for her actions.Antoinette Tuff talked 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill into surrendering after he prompted a lockdown at McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga. Tuesday.Ga. school shooting first responder: We knew we had a serious situation Michael Brandon Hill packing nearly 500 rounds at Georgia elementary school The White House says Obama spoke with Tuff on Thursday while in New York, where he is on an education-focused bus trip stanley mugs . The White House says the president praised Tuff for the courage she displayed earlie stanley kubek r this week while talking to a gunman who entered the school where she works. 911 calls released from Ga. school shooting 24:21 Police say Tuff, a school bookkeeper, was heroic in how she responded after being taken hostage by the gunman. They credit her calm demeanor and kind approach with persuading the man to surrender and ending the ordeal stanley cup without any injuries. Tuff appeared on CNN Thursday night and told Anderson Cooper that the president called her while she was sitting in the network s makeup room preparing for the interview.During the news program, Tuff also met DeKalb County emergency dispatcher Nlcs Congress quest for Trump tax returns likely headed to court
President Bush pledged Tuesday that the United States will not relent in its war against terrorism, even as U.S. casualties mount in Iraq and political criticism spreads at home. Defending his Iraq policy before the American Legion s national convention in St. Louis, Mr. Bush said Iraq has become a point of testing in the war on terror, and vowed, There will be no retreat. We are on the offensive against terror and we will stay on the offensive against terror, Mr. Bush said. The president s appearance before the veterans came as the number of troops who have died in postwar Iraq reached 140 mdash; surpassing the number killed during major combat. A total of 278 soldiers have died since the war began March 20. Mr. Bush declared an end to major combat May 1. Mr. Bush told the American Legion that foreign terrorists were joining Saddam Hussein s loyalists in targeting not just U.S. forces, but U.N. stanley termoska workers. By doing so, he said they were attacking the civilized world. No nation can be neutral in the struggle between civilization and chaos, Mr. Bush said. Every nation that stands on the side of freedom and the value of human life must condemn terror and act against the few who destroy the stanley website hopes of the many. Though he said U.S. forces were making progress in Iraq, he cautioned that pacifying the country was a massive undertaking, and he reminded legionnaires who fought in World War II th termo stanley at rebuilding Europe took years, not m |
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