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
It seems to me there's a mixture of good news and bad news, it's probably fairly accurate,
It seems quite far-fetched. Obviously everything that everyone alleges is looked into.
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.
It's based on unit cohesion, ... The principle is that -- in the event there is something that requires a unit to be involved in, and people are in a personal situation where their time was ending -- they put a stop-loss on it so cohesion is maintained.
It's safe to say that Pakistan has been very cooperative.
They know and we know that the systems that are being discussed are not in any way relevant to the Russians' nuclear force,
They have engaged in a number of such raids and have been successful in at least nine that I know of, ... They intend to proceed in an orderly way.
They have been in contact with the Northern Alliance for some time,
They had forces in flow that would have been able to increase a substantial number above the ultimate 150,000 that went into Iraq.
They found courage, ... Indeed, millions of people found courage.
They are fully aware that these are dangerous individuals,
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,
You don't hang a man until he's had a chance to speak,
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,