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Rumsfeld Talks Iraq, Iran, Homeland Security During Radio Day
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service

"(Americans) want to be able to get up and go where we want, say what we want, think what we want and have our children go off to school knowing they'll come home. That's been our wonderful lives for so long, with those two big oceans and friends on the north and south. We're now in a world where the speed of communications and transportation, a lot of the technologies that our country and the West have developed, are now in the hands of people who don't wish us well. That makes it a much more difficult world for us."

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld touched on some heavy subjects during a short, lighthearted, live radio interview during today's "Radio Day" at the White House.

The Bush administration invited several talk radio commentators to set up for the day on the White House grounds and made high-level administration officials available for interviews throughout the day.

During Rumsfeld's turn on the Mike Gallagher Show, he touched on such broad-ranging topics as his own Naval Reserve service in Illinois to what he sees as the future of Iran.

On Iraq, he reiterated his previous comment that America will not go it alone should the president decide military action is necessary.
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