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
Syria's been on the terrorist list for years,
No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to our security than Iraq,
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,
This war is not about one man or one terrorist network or even one country, ... It is about a problem that infects this globe of ours with a number of terrorist networks and cells in a number of countries.
and we have worked over a number if not all of their terrorist training camps.
You cannot defend against terrorists by hunkering down, ... You simply must go after them. That is the only proper defense is an offense.
Even that does not suggest that there cannot be a terrorist event somewhere, someplace in the world and I suspect there will be,
The United States has a long relationship with the Philippines, ... Some time back, I signed understandings that we would provide some training and assistance to the Philippine government ... to deal with the terrorist problem that they have.
This country has gone in a short period from a haven for terrorists to a coalition ally in the war against terrorism, ... Freedom is clearly taking root in this country, and Afghanistan is on a path to become a model for freedom and moderation in the Muslim world.
This effort is certainly not against the Afghan people. It's not against a race. It's not against a religion. It's against terrorists who came into the United States and killed thousands of human beings, innocent people,
As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,
The terrorists won't win. The Iraqi people will win,
the price of sending terrorists a message that we are not willing to spend what it takes ... would be far greater.
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.