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	Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (2001-2006)
		Donald H. Rumsfeld was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2001, and served until December 18, 2006.
		Secretary Rumsfeld was responsible for directing the actions of the Defense Department in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, to include Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
		Rumsfeld attended Princeton University on academic and NROTC scholarships (A.B., 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor.
	www.whitehouse.gov /government/rumsfeld-bio.html (803 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rumsfeld married the former Joyce Pierson in 1954.
		Rumsfeld himself is said to have found the slot "hilarious." Rumsfeld's penchant for talking with his hands also made him the butt of jokes, including a series portraying him as a martial arts master.
		Rumsfeld stirred controversy by quarreling for months with the CIA over who had the authority to fire Hellfire missiles from Predator drones, although according to The 9/11 Commission Report, the armed Predator was not physically ready for deployment until the Spring of 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld (4950 words)

	Rumsfeld, Donald (Harpers.org)
		Donald Rumsfeld asserted that the Afghan war is “not a quagmire.” Israelis and Palestinians continued to make war on one another; the death count rose to 728 Palestinians and 186 Israelis.
		Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, reported that he sold between $20.5 million and $91 million in assets last year and complained that he had to pay accountants $60,000 to figure out how to fill out the required disclosure forms.
		Donald Rumsfeld, the American secretary of defense, traveled to Vietnam, where he complained that Russia is a bully and China is secretive; he also observed that when Vietnam's first university was founded in 1070 American Indians were still living in mud huts.
	www.harpers.org /DonaldRumsfeld.html (3761 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Secretary Rumsfeld is responsible for directing the actions of the Defense Department in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
		Secretary Rumsfeld proposed and the President approved a significant reorganization of the worldwide command structure, known as the Unified Command Plan, that resulted in the establishment of the U.S. Northern Command and the U.S. Strategic Command, the latter charged with the responsibilities formerly held by the Strategic and Space Commands which were disestablished.
		Rumsfeld has been widely criticized because of his responsibility for the torture policy that came to light in the course of investigations into the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Donald_Rumsfeld (1825 words)

	Biography - DONALD H. RUMSFELD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Donald H. Rumsfeld was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2001.
		Secretary Rumsfeld proposed and the President approved a significant reorganization of the worldwide defense command structure, known as the Unified Command Plan, which resulted in the establishment of the U.S. Northern Command and the U.S. Strategic Command, the latter charged with the responsibilities formerly held by the Strategic and Space Commands which were disestablished.
		Rumsfeld attended Princeton University on academic and NROTC scholarships (A.B., 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor.
	www.defense.gov /bios/secdef_bio.html (985 words)

	Gilead -- Donald H. Rumsfeld Named Chairman of Gilead Sciences
		Rumsfeld, who joined Gilead as a director in 1988, is currently in private business and is distinguished for his accomplishments in both industry and government.
		Rumsfeld was awarded the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
		Rumsfeld presently serves as an advisor to several companies and as a member of the board of directors of ABB AB; Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.; Kellogg; Metricom, Inc.; Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Tribune Company.
	www.gilead.com /wt/sec/pr_933190157 (658 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld - Uncyclopedia
		Donald Hairy Rumsfeld (born July 62, 1901) has been the Secretary of War of the United Spades since the Founding Fathers wrote the constitution in 1787.
		Writer Christopher Hitchens has reported that Donald Rumsfeld has very pendulous breasts, and that they look that way because he keeps grenades under their flesh.
		Donald Rumsfeld also made a cameo appearance on the critically acclaimed romantic drama You Got Served, where he defeated William Shatner in a break dancing battle.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld (702 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld - dKosopedia
		Donald Rumsfeld is the current Secretary of Defense.
		Rumsfeld arrived in Washington, DC in 1957 as an Administrative Assistant to a U.S. Represenatative.
		Rumsfeld is under pressure to resign for a number of valid reasons.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Donald_Rumsfeld (1201 words)

	The 2005 TIME 100: Donald Rumsfeld
		Donald Rumsfeld comes alive in battle, which made him a brilliant architect of the Iraq war.
		Donald Rumsfeld is a terrier of a defense secretary: sharp, strong, always barking—and rarely willing to back down.
		Rumsfeld's pragmatism serves to moderate the impact of the Administration's neoconservatives.
	www.time.com /time/subscriber/2005/time100/leaders/100rumsfeld.html (355 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld: Genius or Hero?
		Rumsfeld, once known for his testy relationship with the media, was unusually open and relaxed, crediting both the military brass he pushed to modernize the military and the U.S. troops who implemented his blitzkrieg strategy.
		Rumsfeld testified after the invasion: “The only course is to stop terrorists before they terrorize.” By that yardstick, the invasion had its desired impact, although sporadic outbursts of terrorism still continue in vulnerable Third World countries.
		Rumsfeld, though, perhaps the sweetest victory is the reversal of longstanding hostility to him and the Iraq war in the capitals of the “Old Europe” he once famously derided.
	www.motherjones.com /commentary/columns/2006/04/rumsfelds_fantasy.html (1905 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld
		Donald Rumsfeld was born in 1932 and grew up in a middle class background in Chicago.
		RUMSFELD: First of all, the Pentagon -- that was not a Pentagon decision, that was a decision that was fully agreed upon throughout all the agencies, all the relevant agencies of the United States government.
		Rumsfeld: I happened not to know that she was going to write a memo but that’s true everyday that someone on the NSC writes a memorandum or someone in one of the principal departments.
	www.neoperspectives.com /rumsfeld.htm (13298 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rumsfeld’s team took over crucial aspects of the day-to-day logistical planning—traditionally, an area in which the uniformed military excels—and Rumsfeld repeatedly overruled the senior Pentagon planners on the Joint Staff, the operating arm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		Rumsfeld’s faith in precision bombing and his insistence on streamlined military operations has had profound consequences for the ability of the armed forces to fight effectively overseas.
		Rumsfeld’s personal contempt for many of the senior generals and admirals who were promoted to top jobs during the Clinton Administration is widely known.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content?030407fa_fact1 (2400 words)

	CNN.com - Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq: 'Stuff happens' - Apr. 12, 2003
		Declaring that freedom is "untidy," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday the looting in Iraq was a result of "pent-up feelings" of oppression and that it would subside as Iraqis adjusted to life without Saddam Hussein.
		Rumsfeld appeared irritated by questions about the looting, asserting that repeated images of Iraqi citizens ransacking buildings represented "a fundamental misunderstanding" of what was happening in Iraq.
		Rumsfeld said he had not seen any conclusive reports on whether Saddam was dead, in hiding or had successfully fled to another country.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.pentagon (806 words)

	CNN.com - Troops put thorny questions to Rumsfeld - Dec 9, 2004
		Soldiers at Camp Buehring, a staging area in the Kuwait desert, peppered Rumsfeld with queries about the standard of equipment they would be using and about the Pentagon's "stop-loss" policy, which prevents troops from leaving the military service even if they are eligible to retire or quit.
		Rumsfeld said armored military vehicles have been brought to the region "from all over the world, from where they're not needed to a place they're needed."
		Rumsfeld said the policy "is something you prefer not to have to use in a perfect world."
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/12/08/rumsfeld.troops (963 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld
		Rumsfeld might have been a moderate compared to Barry Goldwater, but over the years, his political profile moved to the right, whether as a function of relativity or driven by a actual change in attitude.
		In 2002, Rumsfeld tried to put a gloss on this meeting by claiming that he warned Hussein against using banned weapons, but that claim was unsupported by the State Department's notes on the meeting.
		As a result of the openings created by Rumsfeld's diplomatic triumphs, U.S. companies were recruited and encouraged, both covertly and overtly, to ship poisonous chemicals and biological agents to Iraq, by the administrations of both Reagan and George Bush Sr.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/usa/donald-rumsfeld (2451 words)

	Online NewsHour: Newsmaker Interview with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld -- December 8, 2005
		DONALD RUMSFELD: I think what you meant to say, Jim, was that you read reports that I said that to reporters, as opposed to what I actually said.
		DONALD RUMSFELD: We found that there tends to be a spike of violence connected to major political events: The referendum on the constitution; the Jan. 30 elections earlier this year.
		DONALD RUMSFELD: No, I think what is happening -- and this is the first war that has ever been conducted in the 21st century when you had talk radio, the Internet, e-mails, bloggers, 24-hour news, digital cameras, video cameras, instant access to everything, and we haven't accommodated to that yet.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec05/rumsfeld_12-08.html (3975 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld as Mabus
		Donald H. Rumsfeld is one of the only Bush Administration officials to shake hands with Saddam Hussein prior to the Gulf War.
		Donald Rumsfeld has been known as a very undiplomatic person, calling allies in Europe "Old Europe" and "Irrelevant".
		Donald Rumsfeld could get the US into trouble with his "slip of the tongue" and his generally uncompromising opinions.
	www.mabus.biz /who/rumsfeld (469 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld
		Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and oldest Secretary of Defense in American history.
		He is one-for-two: Rumsfeld's plans were effective in toppling Afghanistan quickly with few American casualties, and installing a U.S.-friendly government there.
		And while Rumsfeld's strategy allowed U.S. forces to quickly take nominal control of the land, no-one has yet found a way to calm the increasingly angry natives who want the Americans to leave their country.
	www.nndb.com /people/634/000023565 (687 words)

	Donald H. Rumsfeld - SourceWatch
		Rumsfeld has strong ties to the Intelligence Community, as well as to the Atlantic Institute, and is a member of the Bilderberg group.
		Rumsfeld was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton.
		Secretary Rumsfeld was a naval aviator from 1954 to 1957.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Donald_Rumsfeld (2366 words)

	Department of Rumsfeld
		DONALD RUMSFELD, the US Defence Secretary and one of the most strident critics of Saddam Hussein, met the Iraqi President in 1983 to ease the way for US companies to sell Baghdad biological and chemical weapons components, including anthrax and bubonic plague cultures, according to newly declassified US Government documents.
		Rumsfeld said he could handle aspartame as a ìlegal, rather than scientific problem.î In 1980, shortly after Reagan came into power, Rumsfeld was quoted as saying that ìhe would call in all of his markers and that no matter what, he would see to it that aspartame would be approved that year."
		Rumsfeld himself claimed before his recent visit to Moscow that the US did not consider Russia to be their enemy and that the Cold War era was behind.
	rumsfeld.electromagnet.us (3505 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Profile: Donald Rumsfeld
		Donald Rumsfeld, the former Princeton University wrestler weathered many storms in the past, and wrote the maxim: "If you are not criticised, you are not doing your job."
		Mr Rumsfeld has also faced the task of redirecting the strategy and arsenal of the world's largest military power to take on the invisible, stateless enemy of global terrorism for what the US military has branded the "Long War".
		Henry Kissinger once said that Mr Rumsfeld was the most ruthless man he knew, adding that he was a "skilled full-time politician-bureaucrat in whom ambition, ability and substance fuse seamlessly".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3690341.stm (1034 words)

	NPR : Committee Traces Army's Handling of Tillman Death
		Rumsfeld, in his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since President Bush replaced him with Robert Gates late last year, reiterated previous testimony to investigators that he didn't have early knowledge that Tillman was cut down by fellow Rangers, not by enemy militia, as was initially claimed.
		Rumsfeld conceded to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that the military — under his watch when Tillman was killed in 2004 — botched the way the matter was handled.
		Rumsfeld along with other former Pentagon top brass were called before the committee to tell who knew what about Tillman's death and when.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=12430130 (766 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Donald Rumsfeld
		Donald Rumsfeld's resignation as secretary of defense a day after the November 2006 midterm elections, in which Democrats won control of both the House and Senate, was widely regarded as marking a potentially momentous shift in the direction of U.S. foreign and defense policy.
		President George W. Bush's decision to replace Rumsfeld with Robert Gates, a realist-inclined former CIA director, was regarded as indication that the Bush administration was finally beginning to acknowledge the facts on the ground in Iraq and elsewhere.
		Rumsfeld was also on the board of the multinational Swiss-based company ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB), a key contractor in controversial development projects like the Three Gorges Project in China and the Bakun Dam in Malaysia (Corpwatch, March 16, 1999).
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1346 (2014 words)

	Donald Rumsfeld's Long Career, As He Steps Down As Secretary Of Defense, A Look At His Path And Achievements - CBS News
		Donald Rumsfeld's second tour of duty as Secretary of Defense is coming to an end.
		Rumsfeld's public image was hurt by comments he made about the war that ended up being untrue.
		Rumsfeld was also pilloried by journalist Bob Woodward in his book, "State of Denial." The book claims that Rumsfeld was not only abusive to his military staff and dismissive of other members of the Cabinet, but also that he mismanaged the planning and execution of the war.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/08/politics/main2164845.shtml (972 words)

	Donald H. Rumsfeld
		The role as secretary of defense is not a new one for Rumsfeld.
		When Rumsfeld was named secretary of defense in 1975, Cheney was appointed Ford's chief of staff.
		Rumsfeld served in Congress from 1962 to 1969 as a representative from Illinois.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0880275.html (391 words)

	Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
		Soon thereafter, Donald Rumsfeld (who had served in various positions in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including as President Ford's defense secretary, and at this time headed the multinational pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle and Co.) was dispatched to the Middle East as a presidential envoy.
		Later, Rumsfeld was assured by the U.S. interests section that Iraq's leadership had been "extremely pleased" with the visit, and that "Tariq Aziz had gone out of his way to praise Rumsfeld as a person" [Document 36 and Document 37].
		Rumsfeld was to discuss with Iraqi officials the Reagan administration's hope that it could obtain Export-Import Bank credits for Iraq, the Aqaba pipeline, and its vigorous efforts to cut off arms exports to Iran.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82 (7873 words)

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