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Letter "D" » Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
«He is being accorded the protection of a POW, but he is not being legally described as one at this stage,»
«I would be delighted to take credit for it. It's a good plan. It's a creative and an innovative plan, and it's going to work, ... it's a little early for postmortems.»
«And the only thing that will have changed is that you've now got the interim government and the coalition forces with the same goal, ... but it will require interaction between the two of them because there will be a government for the first time in place of the Taliban.»
«You cannot defend against terrorists by hunkering down, ... You simply must go after them. That is the only proper defense is an offense.»
«We're planning to bring the 152,000 down to about 135,000 or 137,000 or 140,000 over the coming weeks, now that the election is behind us,»
«[While cautioning that Operation Iraqi Freedom was still far from over and] there's a lot more fighting that's going to be done, ... a very good day.»
«I have every reason to believe it had not happened, and that was in the most recent incident where we had people on the ground for a prolonged period that were there with eyes on targets and saw an anti-aircraft and targeted those. And it was not some rival warlord turning U.S. forces against one of their rival warlord enemies,»
«We need to make sure that we are not arranged for a major tank war in Europe, or a strategic nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union because both of those threats have receded. Instead we need to recognize the kinds of instabilities that we have seen over the past decade, the kinds of challenges and emerging threats that exist,»
«There is always a risk in gradualism. It pacifies the hesitant and the tentative,»
«There is a great deal we can learn from this first war of the 21st century, but we cannot and must not make the mistake of assuming that terrorism is the only threat. The next threat we face may indeed be from terrorists, but it could also be cyber-war, a traditional state-on-state conflict or something entirely different,»