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 world then has a chance to see how they plan to chart their path and their course in the months and years ahead.
So the suggestion that there isn't a plan strikes me as more a talking point than a reality,
The senator knows this subject inside and out. He's interested in it. He's deeply involved in the process of fashioning a growth plan and it's going to be a good one.
I have every confidence that they (Iraqis) will end up voting on a new constitution on October the 15th when they had originally planned to do so,
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,
I would suspect we'll get it back, ... They wouldn't have allowed an inspection team to go in there if they didn't plan to return the airplane.
We're within 49 miles of Baghdad, ... He's being closed on from the north, south, and there's so many people running around hyperventilating that things aren't going well. This plan is working.
had a plan that would have gone up above that had it been necessary.
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.
And by the same token, we've got to keep our eye on the ball, and the ball is trying to protect the American people from additional terrorist attacks and try to track down the folks that are planning threats against our country, here and abroad.
increase the number of special operations forces available for missions worldwide, while expanding their capabilities in some key areas.
It's not going to take years, and it's not going to take days. It'll take some months. And then we will go back to the president with our recommendations as to what we believe are the priorities and what needs to be done,
It's not an effort against the Afghan people, ... Indeed, we are providing humanitarian assistance.