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 pressure applied on terrorists and insurgents is having an effect,
The problem is, to a large extent, we are in unexplored territory with this unconventional and complex struggle against extremism,
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,
there are pockets of resistance within the city that continue.
The only way the inspectors can find anything is if the Iraqi government cooperates and shows it to them, ... Inspectors can't find things. They can only inspect what they've been shown.
We're gonna turn the Iraqi election into a big pageant, ... It'll be huge, as big as my hair.
We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.
We've spent the day talking to people and seeing the steps that have been taken to see that those types of abuses to people for whom we have a responsibility and custody will not happen again,
The F-8 pilot clearly put at risk the lives of 24 Americans, ... It was clear the pilot's intent was to harass the crew.
People are dead, and that's unfortunate, ... People need to be very careful about what they say just as people need to be careful about what they do.
people all across the spectrum, insurgents and opponents, people kind of leaning that way, people in the middle, people leaning toward the government and then the government.