New Slogan: "America: We're Not as Bad as al Qaida."

At least, that appears to be the point that Rumsfeld is making.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, responding to allegations that he fostered a climate that led to the prisoner-abuse scandal, said yesterday that the military's mistreatment of detainees was not as bad as what terrorists have done.

"Does it rank up there with chopping someone's head off on television?" he asked. "It doesn't."

So just as long as we're not cutting off anyone's head in the middle of Must See TV, then what's the big deal? Is that the standard that we're holding our government to these days?
Why isn't Don Rumsfeld in an 8 by 8 cell, that's all I want to know. He has admitted to ordering the holding of "ghost detainees", a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions. But hey, it could be worse, right?
Ugh.