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 Pentagon is functioning. It will be in business tomorrow.
We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq,
We are identifying and preparing to deploy forces to replace those individuals, ... Recently I approved deployment of approximately 10,000 replacement personnel. Other units are now being identified and will be approved in the coming days.
We know that Afghans ... know how to fight.
You have shown that America is in fact a land of liberators, not a land of occupiers,
We are confident that our friends here will make decisions that are appropriate to them and that is what we want them to do,
We would intend to have forces in place to see that advantage was not taken of any temporary disorder that could conceivably occur in the conflict,
We are always in countries at the pleasure of the host country, ... How it will evolve in the future is up to the Saudis.
The deep reductions, which are described in the treaty, take both sides down to in the neighborhood of 1,700 to 2,200,
When there is damage done, it is not always exactly clear what caused the damage.
Over time, it would be nice if NATO developed counter-terrorist capabilities, which don't exist at the present time as a NATO function. They do exist within NATO countries,
Our goal is to get the tribes in the south to oppose the Taliban, ... They have been relatively quiet thus far. We need them to oppose the Taliban. Therefore, we need them to recognize that they're going to have a voice in the post-Taliban government.
Our goal is to get large numbers of international forces from lots of countries, including those two,
They've got a peaceful way to change that government -- through the constitution, through the elections. These people aren't trying to promote something other than disorder and to take over that country and turn it into a caliphate and then spread it around the world.