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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Donald Rumsfeld is a prominent American politician who served as the United States Secretary of Defense twice. Born on July 9, 1932, Rumsfeld has extensive experience in political and military affairs, leading key national security and defense policies.

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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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“It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?”

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“Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full”

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“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.”

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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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“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.”

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“We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.”

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“I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.”

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“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

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“I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.”

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“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.”

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“When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.”

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“There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.”

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“We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.”

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Born: July 9, 1932
Known for: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
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Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001Related source material

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