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
Our goal is to get the tribes in the south to oppose the Taliban, ... They have been relatively quiet thus far. We need them to oppose the Taliban. Therefore, we need them to recognize that they're going to have a voice in the post-Taliban government.
I can't speak to how valid it might have been at that time. But it seems to me the information is collected, is collated, and judgments are made and warnings are issued
If it can save American lives, I'm happy to have made the decision I made, ... That seems to me to outweigh the sensitivities -- the proper sensitivities -- that you have raised.
The one thing everyone's agreed upon for sure is that we simply have to keep increasing the number of Iraqis that are involved in the security side,
The United States has a long relationship with the Philippines, ... Some time back, I signed understandings that we would provide some training and assistance to the Philippine government ... to deal with the terrorist problem that they have.
Georgia, of course, is a staunch friend of the West and we welcome the acting president's commitment to hold free and fair elections.
Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.
China of course is expanding its missile forces and enabling those forces to reach many areas of the world well beyond the Pacific region,
Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment?
an obligation to assist in providing security, and the coalition forces are doing that. They're patrolling in various cities. Where they see looting, they're stopping it.
The United States government is not going to make any arrangement with any other country that would in any way undermine our security agreement with Japan,
days of the Saddam Hussein regime are numbered.
There's no question but that I don't answer things I don't want to answer,
For the senior leadership, there is no way out ... their fate has been sealed by their actions.