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
They undoubtedly come through Syria and they come through Iran, probably, and through other countries to be available for tasks that he has in mind, ... And money comes in as well.
and I know for a fact that in a number of cases the coordination is quite good.
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're benefiting from the support of governments and from the support of nongovernmental organizations that are either actively supporting them with money, intelligence and weapons, or allowing them to function on their territory and tolerating, if not encouraging, their activities,
There's a truth, a truism in the intelligence world that is appropriate to the question of where is bin Laden, ... And it is the following -- that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
There's been no discussions about any troop adjustment in Europe. And it would be wrong to inject that into the discussion, and cause tremors unnecessarily and inaccurately,
Absent a dictator, absent the Saddam Hussein regime, our goal would be first to have a single country, not have a country broken up into pieces, it would be to see that it would be a country without weapons of mass destruction, a country that did not try to impose its will upon its neighbors and it was a country that was respectful of the rights of minorities and the ethnic groups that exist in the country,
The more troops you have, the more targets you have, and the more people you might get killed. The more troops you have, the more of an occupying power you are, the heavier footprint, the more force protection you need, the more logistics you need and the more intrusive you are on the people of that country.
Baghdad is bustling with commerce. Universities and hospitals are open for business, ... A free press is flourishing, Iraqi banks have started taking applications for small business loans so Iraqi entrepreneurs can create jobs.
As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,
That number included people, as we said, that had uneven training and uneven equipment. We improved our analysis, and we've gotten much better visibility into the situation,