Controversial Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced today that he would stay on for a second Bush term in order to finish the jobs he started.

'We’ve got a lot of work that’s well along, but some of it’s not finished,' Rumsfeld told reporters.

The Secretary of Defense refused to say whether he would remain at his post for the full four years of Bush's second term.

Rumsfeld was also unwilling to say when he expected American troops to return from Iraq although he hoped they would return before President Bush left the White House.

'I would certainly expect that to be the case, hope that to be the case. But the answer to your question is not that. The answer is the president has said they’ll stay as long as they are needed and not a day longer.'

Rumsfeld's biggest goal was to change the atmosphere around the Pentagon. 'We’ve got a big job to do in the department to see that we are in a process of transforming, which is really a culture; it’s a mind-set; it’s an attitude,' he said.

Controversy has followed Rumsfeld since the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. Critics claim the invasion was undermanned and that contingencies for after the initial fighting was over were lacking. A bigger controversy erupted over the Abu Ghraib prison scandel which Rumsfeld denied any advanced knowledge of despite evidence to that he knew what was happening. Many of the interrogation methods used were either approved by or suggested by Rumsfeld according to critics.