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 seen repeated speculation about his possible location, but it has obviously not been verifiable, ... Had it been verifiable, one would have thought that someone might have done something about it.
The president, the secretary of defense and the combatant commanders are never more than a minute or two away from a secure phone. ...Very, very senior people are able to address a matter in real time and ask the right questions and make the right judgments,
With each passing day, the Iraqi regime is losing control over more of the country,
There can of course be a rise of attacks before the December election,
We will be spending ... taxpayers' money -- hard-earned money -- that is being wasted to manage and maintain bases that we don't need,
This war is not about one man or one terrorist network or even one country, ... It is about a problem that infects this globe of ours with a number of terrorist networks and cells in a number of countries.
There clearly is, has been, and I suspect will continue to be a diplomatic effort to have the North Koreans fulfill their international obligations.
We're not leaping into this, we're moving into it in a measured way,
We're not inclined to add to the number of people that would be given that extensive access,
We've decided that it's time to shift our posture in Europe and Asia and around the world and move from static defense, which does not make much sense today, to a more deployable and usable set of capabilities,
Those advances in China's strategic strike capability give cause for concern, particularly when there is an imperfect understanding among others about such developments,
We see mixed signals and we seek clarification,
to demystify what we see of them and what they see of us.
While there's nothing one of us can do to bring back those loved ones, we can celebrate who they were, how they lived their lives, and remember how their lives were lost, in a struggle dedicated to the eternal truth of freedom and the human spirit,