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
is committed to helping you as you take control of your country and make the transition from tyranny to freedom and self-government.
Our military is making a significant difference in providing relief and aid and help and compassion for those who have suffered,
We need your help to capture the rest of them, ... We also need to get rid of foreign fighters, those from neighboring countries who are seeking to hijack your country for their own purposes.
We, needless to say, do not want to leave abruptly in a way that could inject an instability in this situation, which is why we're working with the interim government to see if we can be helpful in getting their army going and up to speed,
helping bring the people of Iraq to a great future.
What we will be doing at NATO is trying to help people connect the dots before something happens rather than afterwards.
We will stay as long as necessary to help you do that, and not a day longer.... Let me be clear: Iraq belongs to you,
One always tries to help those that are grieving understand the importance of what their sons and daughters have been doing.
As a result, we have some folks in that country that have been working with the government and helping them think through ways of doing things,
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,
I am very impressed, Mr. Secretary, about how quickly we have responded and the assets that you have ordered deployed to help these people.
I think that anytime wrongdoing occurs, it's important that that wrongdoing be reported. And I think that's appropriate. Now, who one reports that to -- the authorities -- is one thing or somebody else is another. But I'm not knowledgeable enough to be in a position to judge it,
I think what you are seeing is the Iraqi people, for the first time, wrestling with very tough, fundamental issues that are important to them, to their future, reflecting the history of the country. They've been proceeding in a very orderly, peaceful way,
I think it's reasonable to expect that violence could, again, increase for a time, as it did during the last elections,