Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeldis an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the second oldestperson to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Counsellor to the President, the United States Permanent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 July 1932
CityEvanston, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I don't think we're going to just stumble over something.
The idea of embedding a press pool into that group seems to me to be outside of the realm of reasonableness,
had a plan that would have gone up above that had it been necessary.
It's not an effort against the Afghan people, ... Indeed, we are providing humanitarian assistance.
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know
have not done what the Pakistan government has done -- put troops along the border and prevent terrorists from escaping out of Afghanistan into their country.
The courts have intervened, as I understand it, and things are off for a period until the courts sort through things,
No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to our security than Iraq,
It is important to go after the air defenses of the Taliban, and their aircraft, ... We are also targeting the command facilities of terrorist forces.
So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,
There's got to be a limit to how one does that,
As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.
I've thought about it. And, over the weekend, I thought to myself, you know, that gives them a greater legitimacy than they seem to merit,
I'm not sure I should have said that, ... Let's pretend I didn't say that.