It is terrible what he did and I feel sorry for the people that have lost their lives.
But when there are pics of rummy shaking his hand while he kills his own people then yes I would call that a minor role.
Lame answer No. 2.
Your great flair for historical facts should concentrate on the changing alliances the world has seen throughout time. Old allies fought as enemies back and forth throughtout european history. The middle east has countries changing regiems like underwear. A picture of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand in year's past has no correlation to the atrocities committed in those videos. Donald Rumsfeld is not a murdering terrorist inspite of what all the left wing liberal hate mongers want to pose.
Jimmy Carter kisses dictator ass on regular basis but no one faults him for it. Thing about Carter is he's a nice old man without a freakin' clue. The Ayotolla Khomeni made him look like chump change.
Of course we could have had communist kissass Kerry as prez. He had the audacity to shake with our Nam enemies during time of war. Rumsfeld shook long before Hussein turned completley vicious.
Sorry doesn't get it, action to remove the source is the only answer. You don't like GWB and you won't like the next president and the next. But guess what, they are what we will have to live with and the people of this country as a whole will not tolerate asswipe dictators murdering innocent human beings. The ideal utopia doesn't exist.