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
Georgia, of course, is a staunch friend of the West and we welcome the acting president's commitment to hold free and fair elections.
Georgia ... is a staunch friend of the West.
I am very impressed, Mr. Secretary, about how quickly we have responded and the assets that you have ordered deployed to help these people.
How many young people are being taught to go out as suicide bombers and kill people? ... How does that inflow of terrorists in the world get reduced so that the number of people being captured or killed is greater than the ones being produced?
I'm not going to talk about what we might or might not do, ... You can be absolutely certain we will not allow our aircraft to continue to be shot at with impunity. We intend to respond.
I'm encouraged. I think you'll find we will get additional forces,
Iran is one of the countries that is -- in our view -- assessed as developing a nuclear capability, and that's unfortunate,
The courts have intervened, as I understand it, and things are off for a period until the courts sort through things,
The challenges of the new century aren't nearly as predictable as they were during the Cold War, ... Our challenge is to defend cities and infrastructure from new forms of attacks.
The Coalition of Iraqi forces have completed the move for all practical purposes from the north to the south. They are operating in one way or another in much, if not all, parts of the city at the present time.
The important fact is ... that every day, every week, every month the Iraqi security forces are larger, they're better equipped, they're better trained and they're more experienced. And that is the central fact,
The impression that's left around the world is that we plan to occupy the country, we plan to use their bases over the long period of time, and it's flat false, ... We went in there to change a regime, we went in there to find weapons of mass destruction, we went in there to stop them from threatening their neighbors, and we have said precisely what we're there for, and it's not what that article says.
The differences are so notable that it would take too long to list them,
agreed to findings and recommendations to strengthen the alliance and reduce the impact of the U.S. military on local communities.