Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, joined by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, second from right, and Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Taro Aso, second left, and Minister of Defense Fumio Kyuma, left, speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Tuesday, May 1, 2007, in Washington.
State Department in Washington, DC. Rice travels Tuesday for a series of meetings on Iraq, ready to open a long-awaited but "firm" dialogue with the previously taboo regimes in Iran and Syria.
(I give up!)
President Bush talks in the Cross Hall of the White House on Tuesday, May 1, 2007, in Washington after he vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq
Finally the day we have been waiting for has come