News Stories---Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Farewell Message To the Troops, Review of Rumsfeld’s Service to the nation as Secretary of Defense, and Rumfeld’s last trip to Iraq.
December 16, 2006 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld gave a farewell message to the troops.
Review of Service as Secretary of Defense. When Donald Rumsfeld became Secretary of Defense in 2001 he found an under funded military with aging equipment. He immediately began a campaign to modernize the military.
This news story shows Rumsfeld speaking with flashback images to events during his tenure as Secretary of Defense.
Images of modern military weapons and equipment, United States troops operating in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan citizens voting after the Taliban was driven from power, Donald Rumsfeld being sworn in as Secretary of Defense with President George Bush looking on, The statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled just weeks after start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Saddam Hussein after capture, and Secretary Rumsfeld dining with American troops at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq.
Rumsfeld’s last trip to Iraq as Secretary of Defense.
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