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 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.
the world then has a chance to see how they plan to chart their path and their course in the months and years ahead.
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.
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,
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,
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
So the suggestion that there isn't a plan strikes me as more a talking point than a reality,
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.
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.
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,