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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.
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And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
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Preserve the President's options. He may need them.
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Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.
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Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.
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If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.
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Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.
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I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.
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You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.
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There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.
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Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
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At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.
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It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
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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.
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