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
At some point, you say, 'we think we've got what we need out of this crowd -- five people -- let's move them along.'
at some point, I think we need to break that cycle.
differences as to who should be in command of what, differences as to where forces should be reinforced or not reinforced, differences as to where supplies should go.
Different restrictions on national forces makes it enormously difficult for commanders to have the flexibility to function,
was accurate, and will be proved to be accurate.
We are still in the early stages of evaluating intelligence data that is available, and we will continue to do that throughout the day,
There's got to be a limit to how one does that,
There's no question but that I don't answer things I don't want to answer,
There's much less coherence in the Defense Department than there could be if only some of the widely available practices in industry were applied,
We recognize and respect the leadership role that you have taken in this country politically and from an economic standpoint as well as a security standpoint,
We figure we may still have that many people on the rolls. But of the ones that are trained and equipped, the number now looks to be, the latest number -- last week it was 105,000 -- now it looks to be 95,000, that is to say that are trained and equipped,
We have been targeting caves and tunnels and closing them up and getting a lot of secondary explosions, in some cases, when they were used for ammunition storage,
We care about the detainees being treated right. We care about soldiers behaving right. We are about command systems working.
We had total control of the air. We would have seen anything like that,