Of course I know Rumsfeld was not a member of the administration but there exists quote after quote showing Rumsfeld was far more than a messenger boy. All of which you seem to ignore.

Who paid his pay cheque is irrelevant. My pay cheque came from Sheffield College until I retired. It doesn't mean I didn't have unpaid work.

You don't consider he was doing a bit on the side then? After all he was chairman of Searle at the time and the shareholders didn't seem to mind him swanning off around the Middle East so they must have thought him going to meet Saddam Hussein was a good idea.

You don't think countries like Egypt selling him arms might be doing so with US approval?

When challenged to say whether or not he agreed with private contractors claiming immunity from being prosecuted for negligence resulting in the death of American citizens - from Teribus, first irrelevant bluster, then silence.

When referred to documents detailing the sales of chemical weapons - testified by a Senate Committee - from Teribus, silence.

Note Teribus - when Iraq was invaded one of the reasons was that he had used (or was prepared to use) chemical weapons again.

You are starting to bluster in the face of irrefutable evidence.

And when you have read how the US Defence Department have been losing the supply chain of weapons which could easily have gone to the insurgents in Iraq, go and start a thread about invading the perpetrators.