Donald Rumsfeld Ass Quotations

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

The killing fields are gone, the mass graves are not having new bodies piled up day after day, as happened under Saddam Hussein,

What we are basically involved in is providing assistance and food and ammunition and liaison in a way that targeting should be more precise, ... These people have been fighting for ages. They know their own minds, and they are going to move when they see fit.

People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

With each passing day, the Iraqi regime is losing control over more of the country,

We stand ready to assist Georgia in the period ahead,

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

The way that we can leave that country better than we found it, a lot better -- no more mass graves, no more prisons filled with people -- we can leave it by investing in the kinds of security that we're talking about here, ... That is what this request is overwhelmingly about.

assured him that Gen. Tommy Franks and his Central Command staff will work closely with the Canadian representatives in Tampa to investigate the causes of this tragic accident.

One would assume days, not weeks or months, ... I'd be reluctant to be any more precise than that.

It turns out that we have not found weapons of mass destruction. And does everyone know he had them at one point? Certainly. Does everyone believe -- even those in the U.N. who voted the other way -- acknowledge the fact that he had filed a fraudulent declaration with the United Nations?

It will take some assistance from the air.

Our military is making a significant difference in providing relief and aid and help and compassion for those who have suffered,

Anyone who looks at the overhead photography of these poor human beings, amassing into thousands of people trekking across drought-stricken areas, has to be just heartbroken. It is important that we and other countries assist those people,

I have not seen the tape. I do not know if that is on the tape.. whether or not he was dead or alive when whatever took place did take place, ... It seems to me that one ought to be willing to allow some time to pass over something like this so that the people who are looking at these things can come to some conclusions.

Absent a dictator, absent the Saddam Hussein regime, our goal would be first to have a single country, not have a country broken up into pieces, it would be to see that it would be a country without weapons of mass destruction, a country that did not try to impose its will upon its neighbors and it was a country that was respectful of the rights of minorities and the ethnic groups that exist in the country,

find Iraqis who can assist in providing police support in those cities and various types of stabilizing and security assistance.

Externally, they appear to be weapons of mass destruction, ... But until we get into them, look at them, analyze it, find out what it was, we're not going to know.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

an obligation to assist in providing security, and the coalition forces are doing that. They're patrolling in various cities. Where they see looting, they're stopping it.

I'll just simply say they do have weapons of mass destruction, ... And the purpose of the U.N. resolution, of course, is for them to allow inspectors in and allow inspectors to make some conclusions.

I can assure you that we are going to find ways, one way or another, to see that the men and women who go to the Gulf have the same kind of training that we're giving the men and women who go out in the Pacific for their deployments,

And as I understand it, the Judiciary Committee preferred to have an open hearing on a classified matter, and therefore the department declined to participate in an open hearing on a classified matter,

I am very impressed, Mr. Secretary, about how quickly we have responded and the assets that you have ordered deployed to help these people.

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 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.