Richard L. Armitage, 79, dies. Foreign Ministry official in a turbulent era
Richard died for. Armitage, who held the position of official No. 2 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2005, during the troubled era of the September 11 attacks and the beginning of the American reprisal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on Sunday. It was 79.
The reason was a pulmonary blockage, Armitage InternationalAnd a consulting company carried out by Mr. Armitage in Arlington, Virginia, in statement. The statement did not say where he died.
Mr. Armitag, a graduate of the Marine Academy, who served in Vietnam, was headed by Raqla, and Ras Rash, a graduate at the Maritime Academy who served in Vietnam, in three presidents in senior jobs in foreign policy and defense, and is part of Cutri that extends decades of government officials who believe in an American muscular presence abroad.
One of the group, led by Condoleezza Rice, who called themselves “Volcan”, was advising to President George W. Bush experienced experience in defense issues during his presidential campaign and the first period.
However, Mr. Armitage made an unwanted reputation as an unveiled source for the 2003 news, which revealed the secret identity of the CIA, Valerie Plam Wilson, shortly after the invasion of Iraq.
The Bush administration has taken the issue of war based on exaggerated allegations that Iraq is linked to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and weapons weapons of mass destruction.
What has become known as the “Valery Plam case” in the Washington scandal, with a complete press by the media and criminal investigation by the Special Public Prosecutor.
Mrs. Wilson was publicly named after her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, wrote an opinion column in the New York Times, accusing President Bush on the pretext that Iraq tried to buy uranium in Africa for nuclear weapons.
Mr. Wilson, a former official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accused the Bush administration of his wife’s picnic in response to his criticism.
A week after the publication of Mr. Wilson’s article, conservative column writer Robert Novak revealed the name of Mrs. Wilson, who was classified, and he launches a special investigation on the prosecutor in the leakage source.
Mr. Armitage, who collaborated with the investigation, revealed publicly after three years that he was the source. He said that the disclosure was unintended, and he apologized to former colleagues and Louisons. No criminal charges have been brought to the leakage, although I. Lewis Libby JR. , Assistant Vice President Dick Cheney, convicted of lying to investigators in 2007. (President Bush gave him the mercy next month.)
“It was a terrible mistake on my part. There was no day when I did not feel that I failed the president, the foreign minister, my colleagues, my family and Wilson,” Mr. Armitage said in an interview with the Times in 2006.
The duration of Mr. Armitage started in the upper roles in the state’s departments and defense during the Reagan administration.
In the 2000 elections, he and other members of Volcan – who are familiar with the foreign policy expected from the previous Republican presidency – cooperated to advise Mr. Bush, who, as the governor of Texas, was new on the national stage.
Mrs. Rice has become a national security adviser to President Bush; Collin l. Powell Foreign Minister; The Senate, Mr. Armitage, confirmed one of the best friends of Mr. Powell, as his secretary.
In the wake of terrorist attacks on September 11-when Al-Fulkan, who also included Mr. Cheney and Defense Minister Donald H. Rumsfeld, an aggressive American response-Mr. Armitage spoke to General Pakistani, seeking support in what will become the American war on terrorism.
The President of Pakistan, Bruise Musharraf, later told the CBS News “60 minutes” that Mr. Armitage threatened to bomb his country “return to the Stone Age” if he did not support the United States. Mr. Armitage denied that he threatened military action against Pakistan.
He offered his resignation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November 2004, after the re -election of President Bush, and one day after Mr. Powell announced that he was stepped down, and he will make an agreement with the president that he will only work for four years as a diplomatic president in the country. Mr. Aramitage officially left in February 2005 and entered the private sector.
In 2009, he said that water skiing at the CIA for terrorist detainees, which was approved by the White House Bush, was wrong and a form of torture.
“I hope, if I knew it while I was serving, I would have been able to resign,” He said In an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “But I don’t know. It is too late now.”
Richard Lee Armitage was born on April 26, 1945, in Wilsley, Massachusetts, and grew up in Atlanta. He graduated from St. Pius S. Catholic Secondary School there in 1963.
After graduating from the Marine Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he served on a destroyer off the coast of Vietnam. Then he volunteered to work as a consultant to the Vietnamese forces, and became familiar with the Vietnamese during three rounds with them. He got a bronze star.
After the fall of Cigon in 1975, Mr. Armitage led a people from 30,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated to a safe port in the Philippines, according to Biography of the Maritime Academy.
The government entered that year as a Pentagon consultant and after that he was an auxiliary for the Cenator Bob, the countries of Kansas.
Mr. Armitage was a consultant to Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy in the 1980 presidential campaign, then joined the Reagan Administration as the Assistant Minister of Defense in East Asia and the Pacific. From 1983 to 1989, he was the Assistant Minister of Defense for Security Policy.
During the era of President George H Bush, he was an envoy to King Hussein from Jordan during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and a ambassador in Eastern European countries after the fall of the Soviet Union. He founded the Armitage International after leaving the government in 2005 and running it until his death.
Among the survivors of his wife, Laura (Samford) Armitage; Eight children; Brother and sister. And 12 grandchildren. He and his wife were also custody and religion for many children.
In the 2016 presidential elections, Mr. Armitag Hillary Clinton supported Donald J. Trump. Four years later, he was one of more than 130 Republican National Security officials who signed statement Mr. Trump summoned “dangerously inappropriate” to clarify a second term. Joseph R. Biden Junior in the 2020 race.