I recently talked with a retired four-star who told me he thought Rumsfeld was the worst secretary of defense since McNamara.
My observation (and no, I don't know every senior officer) is that the military leaders do not consider Bush and Cheney to be the problem that you do, and they most certainly are not using Rumsfeld as a "smokescreen."
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