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 sooner it is done, the fewer Iraqis that will be killed, the fewer Americans or coalition forces that will be killed.
The terrorists won't win. The Iraqi people will win,
Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed brutal dictators, and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom,
Every day, the number of Iraqi security forces are getting bigger, and they're getting better, and they're getting more experienced,
Who said that? I certainly did not say that. How could you even ask that question when it was the Iraqi regime that ignored 16 resolutions of the U.N. over a period of many years.
should be a period of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty.
With each passing day, the Iraqi regime is losing control over more of the country,
find Iraqis who can assist in providing police support in those cities and various types of stabilizing and security assistance.
Even with the large and growing number of forces on the Iraqi border, Gen. Franks achieved something seemingly impossible: a tactical surprise,
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.
would signal the Iraqi regime that they can continue their violations of the U.N. resolutions.
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.
The one thing everyone's agreed upon for sure is that we simply have to keep increasing the number of Iraqis that are involved in the security side,