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
the sooner it is done, the fewer Iraqis that will be killed, the fewer Americans or coalition forces that will be killed.
The test is who's going to outlast the other, and the answer is we're going to outlast them.
The terrorists won't win. The Iraqi people will win,
I wanted to have a chance to look at the bases and get briefed by the military people on the island and develop a first-hand opinion about what's taking place there and how we're arranged.
Some will do it publicly, some will do it privately. Each will do it in their own way, and it will all be helpful,
Sometimes they might use a word that I might not, or sometimes they might use a word that they won't again,
Sometimes he would be staying in motion in vehicles. Sometimes those vehicles were taxicabs, ... And sometimes he spent, again, three or four hours in a taxicab that was not a taxicab; it didn't have the meter running.
Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed brutal dictators, and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom,
Saddam Hussein has killed more Muslim people than perhaps any living person on the face of the Earth,
Every day, the number of Iraqi security forces are getting bigger, and they're getting better, and they're getting more experienced,
Every day there are numerous threat warnings, ... They are looked at, sorted and sifted.
Every effort is made to dissuade an airplane from going into any area that's prohibited, for example, ... And there are all kinds of ways that's done. It's done through radio communication. It's done through hand signals. It's done through flying in front of an airplane ... There are a lot of safeguards in place.
Based on our early assessments, we believe we've made progress toward eliminating the air defense sites around the country,
As to when the (wartime command) shift might take place, it would take place at that moment when the Republic of Korea and the United States decide it is appropriate,