Send in the clowns.

The big news over the weekend was this:

Western forces hit targets along the Libyan coast on Saturday, using strikes from air and sea to force Muammar Gaddafi’s troops to cease fire and end attacks on civilians.

Libyan state television said 48 people had been killed and 150 wounded in the allied air strikes. It also said there had been a fresh wave of strikes on Tripoli early on Sunday.

There was no way to independently verify the claims.

CBS News on its website said on Sunday that three U.S. B-2 stealth bombers had dropped 40 bombs on a “major Libyan airfield” that was not further identified. A Pentagon spokesman said he had no information about such an attack.

So the question of the moment is where are all the outraged masses? Where is all of that righteous indignation we saw back when the U.S. went back into Iraq to clean up the mess that lingered for a decade plus after the ‘first’ Gulf War?

I’m curious because anyone who doesn’t think this is just as much about oil as it was in Iraq, is living in a huge state of denial. I’m curious because this is so much about regime change and the parallels are so stark (between Libya today and Iraq a few years back) that the amazing irony of it all could only be lost on only the truly stupid.

Dare I say, there is a different measure put to the current chief executive only because he is a Democrat?

And anyone who for a moment thinks things might be different if HRC had gained the Presidency, need only look as far as the current Secretary of State’s actions and statements of the last few weeks to have that notion dispelled:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that a U.N. no-fly zone over Libya would require bombing targets inside the country to reduce the threat posed by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces...

“A no-fly zone requires certain actions taken to protect the planes and the pilots, including bombing targets like the Libyan defense systems,” Clinton said as she neared the end of a Middle East trip dominated by worries about Libya, where a rebel offensive is apparently flagging.

 Again, I just wonder why there hasn’t been this call to rally in the streets. But wait, it gets even better:

In the months before Libyans revolted and President Obama told leader Moammar Gadhafi to go, the U.S. government was moving to do business with his regime on an increasing scale by quietly approving a $77 million deal to deliver at least 50 refurbished armored troop carriers to the dictator’s military.

 Sometimes, you just got to go out and buy yourself some waders to make it through the bullshit.