Benghazi bumpersticker bullshit

I saw a bumpersticker in my neighborhood grocery store parking lot today. It read

Four Died, Hillary Lied.

I'm quite sick of people's obsession with a "scandal" that has been found to have no basis in fact. The ankle biters at the House Select Committee on Benghazi toiled (and part of that toil was making things up) for seventeen months and found nothing. After their failure to find anything Hillary did wrong in handling Benghazi, the Committee devolved into what could be called the Select Committee on Hillary's Email Practices. Nothing there, either.

You could argue that Issa, Gowdy, and company were incompetent, but, hey, they're your guys.

I would like to contrast the Benghazi affair with what George W. Bush and Dick Cheney perpetrated on America during their two terms in office: the Iraq War. After the comparison, I'll ask a couple of questions.

The death toll in the Twin Tower attacks was 2,996. Possible responses to the attack were several. One of the Bush Administration's responses, the war in Afghanistan, was foolish in some ways, but at least it was related to 9/11. The other (stated) response was the war in Iraq, which, as subsequently proven, had no connection whatsoever to the Al Qaeda terrorist attack. Indeed, Bush cynically used the nation's grief and anger over 9/11 to launch the war in Iraq under the cover of a supposed "international war on terror."

Bush lied.

The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2014 was 4,491. Had the Iraq War had anything to do with 9/11, it still would have been a bad bargain. As it is, Bush and Cheney have 4,491 wrongful deaths on their heads.

I am not suggesting that, because one administration carries out a larger calamity than another, that the smaller calamity can be excused. But a long investigation of Hillary Clinton found nothing, and even ended up making the Committee look like unprepared school children.

Now, why is it that people can obsess over some error that Hillary Clinton was alleged to have made, yet not be outraged at what George W. Bush did to this country?

Is it, perhaps, that you just hate Hillary in the first place and just embrace any little scrap of scandal (true or not) that you can find?