Donald Rumsfeld
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"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. "During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the CIA, under the direct orders of the then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes, known as the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse."--Sholem Stein |
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under George W. Bush.
In 2003, Slate found poetry in Donald Rumsfeld's speeches and news briefings.
Rumsfeld was the subject of the 2013 Errol Morris documentary The Unknown Known, the title a reference to his response to a question at a February 2002 press conference. In the film Rumsfeld "discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003".
Michael Moore called Rumsfeld a war criminal.
See also
- Agathidium rumsfeldi
- Early association with liberal activist Allard Lowenstein
- There are known knowns
- Rumsfeld Doctrine
- Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld (2011)
