Republicans in the House of Representatives are starting their eighth investigation of the attack on the US Libyan Embassy in Benghazi. Something doesn’t make sense. Four Americans died in the Benghazi attack while 4,487 US soldiers died in George W. Bush’s Iraqi War. How does Benghazi rate eight investigations while Bush’s War has never rated a Congressional investigation of any kind?

The Benghazi investigation revolves around questions about semantics such as if President Barack Obama correctly called the attack “terrorism” or “act of terror”. How pathetic. Just a few of the questions demanding answers about Bush’s War:

• Was the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under pressure from the White House to claim there were weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq? If yes, who is accountable?
• If the intelligence community was not pressured, how could they make such a mistake, especially considering how our NATO allies continually rebutted the CIA evidence? Who is accountable?
• Were international laws broken when Bush ordered the invasion while Iraq was fully cooperating with the United Nations weapons inspectors who claimed they were a few weeks away from determining Iraq had no WMDs?
• Did White House officials break a 1982 law prohibiting the disclosure of the identities of covert CIA officers when they revealed Valerie Plame’s status to columnist Richard Novak and other reporters?
• Plame’s husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, investigated claims that Iraq attempted to buy nuclear weapons grade uranium from the African nation Niger and found the claims were false. Why did President George W. Bush knowingly lie to Congress in his 2003 State of the Union address when he stated that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bought the uranium? Should Bush be held accountable?
• Vice President Cheney’s top aide, I. Lewis Libby, took responsibility for Plame’s disclosure as a covert CIA agent. Libby was convicted of lying about his role in the leak of Plame’s identity, two counts of perjury, one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. Before Libby’s sentencing, he was pardoned by President Bush. Who in the White House actually authorized Plame’s outing?
• Knowing that the UN weapons inspectors were verifying our allies’ findings that there were no WMDs in Iraq, what  was the real reason George W. Bush ordered the invasion?

While the Republican Benghazi investigation dances around smoke and mirrors, the investigation they refuse to hold about Iraq goes right to the heart of our democracy, the integrity and independence of our intelligence community and whether a US president is immune from international law.