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
One would assume days, not weeks or months, ... I'd be reluctant to be any more precise than that.
One thing would be to have less shelling, another might be to have more talking.
More -- much more -- will be asked of you in the weeks and months ahead. This is especially true of those who are in the field.
My hope is that they do get it done in good time and to the extent it requires adjustments later, obviously that can be done,
There are people running around with digital cameras, taking these unbelievable pictures, sending them out against the law, and they haven't even arrived at the Pentagon yet!
We're committed to staying -- as long as necessary with as many forces as necessary to successfully complete the mission,
Let me be clear. We have the forces, the capabilities and the intention to fully prosecute the global war on terror while responding to this unprecedented humanitarian crisis here at home,
China of course is expanding its missile forces and enabling those forces to reach many areas of the world well beyond the Pacific region,
China and the US share a complex relationship and despite notable differences, we still have a great deal in common,
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.
I have been highly criticized for not rushing to judgment and criticizing words that I've never even seen,
I have been doing a number of things with respect to national security and foreign policy issues in the intervening years, and I look forward to it, ... I really do. It's a fine institution, and there are wonderful people there.
We fully intend to find them and chase them to the ground and root them out, ... We certainly intend to find (bin Laden) and we're doing everything humanly possible to do that.
What we are basically involved in is providing assistance and food and ammunition and liaison in a way that targeting should be more precise, ... These people have been fighting for ages. They know their own minds, and they are going to move when they see fit.