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
Our military is making a significant difference in providing relief and aid and help and compassion for those who have suffered,
People have been moving together, talking, discussing things, ... You can always find someone who's going to try to be a dead-ender and say, 'If you don't do this, I won't do that.' But that's part of negotiation. We see that in the Congress and we see it in democratic systems all over the world.
Success will only occur if there's progress on the political front so that the Iraqi people see that in fact it is their country. It is a sovereign nation. They are in control of it,
know what they're doing. They're focusing on public opinion in the United States. They're trying to do things that are dramatic and affect that.
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.
managing their affairs as people responsible for weapons of that power.
Today, history is being written by the valiant men and women of America's armed forces and by determined citizens who will do all they can to win this test of wills ? for that is what it is ? to keep our children from experiencing the heartbreak and terror of Sept. 11,
to embark on a diplomatic initiative to work with North Korea to see if they wouldn't reverse their position of violating these three or four agreements.
What we will be doing at NATO is trying to help people connect the dots before something happens rather than afterwards.
have not done what the Pakistan government has done -- put troops along the border and prevent terrorists from escaping out of Afghanistan into their country.
have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.
had a plan that would have gone up above that had it been necessary.
I wish we could say ... that this is a time for peaceful remembrance, that we were gathering today to commemorate a danger that had long since past, ... ... But we cannot. The enemy, though seriously weakened and continuously under pressure, continues to plot attacks and the danger they pose to the free world is real and present.
I would guess there will be an end, ... Can I tell you for sure? No. ... This isn't World War I or World War II, that starts and then ends. Take Afghanistan. We've moved from major military activities to a point where at the present time, the vast majority of the country is in a stabilization security mode.