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
We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.
We're gonna turn the Iraqi election into a big pageant, ... It'll be huge, as big as my hair.
The insurgency could go on for any number of years,
and we have worked over a number if not all of their terrorist training camps.
The more troops you have, the more targets you have, and the more people you might get killed. The more troops you have, the more of an occupying power you are, the heavier footprint, the more force protection you need, the more logistics you need and the more intrusive you are on the people of that country.
The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,
They had forces in flow that would have been able to increase a substantial number above the ultimate 150,000 that went into Iraq.
Baghdad is bustling with commerce. Universities and hospitals are open for business, ... A free press is flourishing, Iraqi banks have started taking applications for small business loans so Iraqi entrepreneurs can create jobs.
Quitting is not an exit strategy. It would be a formula for putting the American people at still greater risk,
I think it's important to think of the setting six months ago, ... Six months ago, the Iraqis refused to have inspectors in their country. They were ignoring 16 resolutions of the United Nations.
There's been no discussions about any troop adjustment in Europe. And it would be wrong to inject that into the discussion, and cause tremors unnecessarily and inaccurately,
They are currently functioning independently of the tribes ... and they are doing things that are helpful to our side and unhelpful to the other side,
Given their geography and situation, I thought that meeting with the leadership there would be a good thing,
I have been highly criticized for not rushing to judgment and criticizing words that I've never even seen,