DougR, the impression I am left with after reading your posts to this thread (based on your opinion that Rumsfeld is doing a "competent" job as Secretary of Defense, is that, in your opinion, torture and abuse of prisoners, and violations of the Geneva Convention by representatives of the US (both governmental as well as "private contractors") is a good thing and that these things are a part of what constitutes "competence" in a Secretary of Defence.

Whether or not you intend this to be your meaning, that's the way it comes across to me, at least.