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'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.
Any changes to U.S. military posture in Northeast Asia will be the product of consultation with our key allies. Most importantly, they will result in an increased U.S. capability in the region,
I will be talking about the changed circumstance in the world and our recognition that with those changes it's important that the United States as well as the NATO alliance adjust to those changes,
I'll guess that when this is over, that this probably will prove to have been the change of hands with the least loss of life in modern memory in that country -- but there will be loss of life.
If every time two or three people disagreed we changed the secretary of defense of the United States, it would be like a merry-go-round.
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 hope is that those Taliban people will in fact move over and support the Northern Alliance and support the tribes in the south, ... The point of the broadcasts and of the leaflets that are being dropped is that we're encouraging people to surrender or to change sides.
We have to expect that global terrorist networks that we know are trying to get these weapons will in fact be successful at some time in the future,
We will stay as long as necessary to help you do that, and not a day longer.... Let me be clear: Iraq belongs to you,
What's happened is amazing for the speed with which it was executed, but also for all the things that did not happen, all the bad things that could have happened, because of that speed,
I've thought about it. And, over the weekend, I thought to myself, you know, that gives them a greater legitimacy than they seem to merit,
It would be a very good thing if he were out of business,
These proposals have nothing to do with that, ... These proposals have to do with organizational arrangements within the Department of Defense that put a focus on the important issues relating to space which have been spread throughout the department in a way that has made it difficult to get the right kind of focus and the right kind of emphasis.
These events occurred on my watch, ... As secretary of defense, I am accountable for them and I take full responsibility.