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 wish we could say ... that this is a time for peaceful remembrance, that we were gathering today to commemorate a danger that had long since past, ... ... But we cannot. The enemy, though seriously weakened and continuously under pressure, continues to plot attacks and the danger they pose to the free world is real and present.
As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,
It's basically a sound principle. It's nothing new; it's been well understood ... My guess is it will continue to be used as little as possible, but that it will continue to be used.
I'm not going to talk about what we might or might not do, ... You can be absolutely certain we will not allow our aircraft to continue to be shot at with impunity. We intend to respond.
All the instructions I issued required humane treatment, ... Anything that was done that was not humane has been prosecuted.
The Republic of Korea, an impoverished and devastated nation over a half-century ago, now has one of the world's most powerful economies and is an important democracy with a large and increasingly capable armed force,
No, I wouldn't use the word 'threat.' I'm from Chicago. If you're going to cock it, you'd better throw it.
I would characterize it as an isolated problem.
Our goal is to get large numbers of international forces from lots of countries, including those two,
He is being accorded the protection of a POW, but he is not being legally described as one at this stage,
I think the only people who could conceivably be talking about a draft are people who are speaking from pinnacles of near-perfect ignorance.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
One always tries to help those that are grieving understand the importance of what their sons and daughters have been doing.
insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years.