Donald Rumsfeld Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Army, Iraq

  Remarks at town hall meeting, Kuwait, 8 Dec. 2004

• We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Iraq, Wmd

• There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Peace, War, Lying

• There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Loss, Engaged

  "America Strikes Back: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Secretary of the Army Thomas White Hold a Press Conference". "CNN Live Event/Special", www.cnn.com. October 11, 2001.

• Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Iraq, Lasts

• No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Quagmire, Iraq War

• ... 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.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Would Be

• I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Oil, Iraq War

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

• The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Victory, Cold

• An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Struggle, Rights

• The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Stupid, Republican

  "Rumsfeld: ˜The Implication That There Was Something Wrong with the War Plan is Amusing" by Judd Legum, thinkprogress.org. April 20, 2006.

• We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Iraq

  "Text: At the Pentagon". www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2003.

• Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Depressing, Peace, War

  "The unknown Afghan body count" by James Denselow, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2010.

• Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Mass Destruction

  "15 Years of Mass Destruction in Iraq". "The Real News Network" with Sharmini Peries, therealnews.com. March 20, 2018.

• Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have properly consulted and sought support from Congress. That is the wise thing to do.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wise, Military, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Iraq, Long

• Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Tired

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Distance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe - it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Believe, Army

  "Troops put Rumsfeld in the hot seat". Donald Rumsfeld's speech at the town hall meeting with U.S. troops at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, edition.cnn.com. December 8, 2004.

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