WASHINGTON: Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of the Defense Twice and a one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and modern military visionary was dirty by a long and expensive Iraq war, dead, his family said in a statement released Tuesday.
He is 88 years old.
Considered by his former colleague and fighting, patriotic and cunning, Rumsfeld has a multilevel career under four presidents and almost a quarter of a century in America.
In 2001 he began his second tour as the head of the Pentagon under President George W.
Bush, but his plan to “change ‘the armed forces was overshadowed by the September 11 terrorist attack.
He oversees the US invasion to Afgham and the overthrow of Saddam 2003.
Hussein in Iraq, where He was blamed for setbacks including Abu Ghraib’s abuse scandal and because he slowly recognized a cruel rebellion.