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
I think the only people who could conceivably be talking about a draft are people who are speaking from pinnacles of near-perfect ignorance.
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.
I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.
I think it's important to think of the setting six months ago, ... Six months ago, the Iraqis refused to have inspectors in their country. They were ignoring 16 resolutions of the United Nations.
It is a confused situation in the country,
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.
China of course is expanding its missile forces and enabling those forces to reach many areas of the world well beyond the Pacific region,
China and the US share a complex relationship and despite notable differences, we still have a great deal in common,
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.