Hey, I get it. Donald Trump is vile scum. And yeah, he may be worse than Al Franken, whose resignation Democrats are lamenting as we speak. Sexism and sexual harassment, assault and abuse is a terrible thing. But here's the kicker. If this is so important, why are Hillary and Obama fans ignoring this story?

Refugees and migrants face kidnap, rape, torture, slave labour and sexual violence in Libya before attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, an Oxfam report has found. [...] The testimonies revealed harrowing abuses of migrants in Libya. All but one of the women interviewed said they had suffered from sexual violence, with men also speaking of rape. Three quarters of the refugees and migrants interviewed also said they had witnessed the murder and/or torture of a travelling companion, the report said.

For those of you who might wonder what this atrocity has to do with Hillary Clinton, the woman repeatedly held up as the single greatest victim of sexism in our times, let me review how Libya went from "the most improved African economy offering, according to UN reports, the highest quality of life for Africans on the African continent" to the hellhole it is now. It all began with a certain Secretary of State who was determined to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, come hell or high water.

President Obama was deeply wary of another military venture in a Muslim country. Most of his senior advisers were telling him to stay out. Still, he dispatched Mrs. Clinton to sound out Mr. Jibril, a leader of the Libyan opposition. Their late-night meeting on March 14, 2011, would be the first chance for a top American official to get a sense of whom, exactly, the United States was being asked to support. [...] Her conviction [to support an US backed bombing campaign] would be critical in persuading Mr. Obama to join allies in bombing Colonel Qaddafi’s forces. In fact, Mr. Obama’s defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, would later say that in a “51-49” decision, it was Mrs. Clinton’s support that put the ambivalent president over the line. The consequences would be more far-reaching than anyone imagined, leaving Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven, a place where the direst answers to Mrs. Clinton’s questions have come to pass.

Well, that's the New York Times version, so take it with a grain of salt. Still, they make it clear Hillary Clinton was the driving force behind US backed regime change in Libya. And you know what is the real irony of her "successful overthrow" of Gaddafi? It was sold to the American public with a lie, a lie pushed by Susan Rice, Obama's Ambassador to the UN that Gaddafi had ordered the mass rape of civilians by his soldiers.

A lie so blatantly false that even Amnesty International couldn't stomach it, exposing it as false shortly after Gaddafi's death.

Nato leaders, opposition groups and the media have produced a stream of stories since the start of the insurrection on 15 February, claiming the Gaddafi regime has ordered mass rapes, used foreign mercenaries and employed helicopters against civilian protesters. An investigation by Amnesty International has failed to find evidence for these human rights violations and in many cases has discredited or cast doubt on them. It also found indications that on several occasions the rebels in Benghazi appeared to have knowingly made false claims or manufactured evidence.

And so now we have another "failed state" in the Middle East. One we cannot conveniently blame on Republican War Pigs. No, this failure, and the human misery that it caused is the fault of a Democratic administration. And the biggest backer of this reckless and illegal war was the nominee of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton. At the time, she was overjoyed at her success, gloating and laughing over the brutal murder of the man she wanted terminated with extreme prejudice.

Now I'm not here to cry any tears over Mr. Gaddafi, but I do question why the Obama administration and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, were so keen on engineering the overthrow of his government. Whatever their reasons, good or bad or just plain evil, the result has been a human catastrophe for the Libyan people on an epic scale, a great evil for which the United States is primarily responsible.

Africans are being traded as slaves in open markets in Libya. Reports from CNN as well as many independent videos floating on the social media show Africans being bundled in lorries and piled by their 10s on top of each other in tiny rooms that easily evoke the horrendous conditions depicted in Djimon Hounsou’s “Amistad”, a Steven Spielberg directed historical motion picture about a slave revolt on board a ship where the conditions were so dehumanizing that the captured Africans went berserk and tore apart their captors. [...] All this was done with the backing and the blessing of the dominant military power in the world. The United States of America provided, not just the moral justification, but also the physical force to stop any other nation from intervening in the regime change process ... The destruction of Libyan Jamahiriya and all the institutions that provided for the Libyan People is in itself unacceptable. What chokes up anyone witnessing the atrocities within is the fact that all these was done for the expediency of US energy requirements and for the benefit of American oil companies and the associated business.

So Hillary Clinton resistance fighters, I'm in with you on how Trump is an awful, racist and sexist moron who should not be our President. He has committed numerous high crimes and misdemeanors since he's been in office that would justify impeachment, including (1) the prosecution of illegal wars around the world, (2) the bombing of Iraqi, Afghan and Syrian civilians, (3) our government's support for the genocidal war being waged against the Houthi Shia people of Yemen, and (4) numerous violations of the emoluments clause. Add anything else you want to add to the list (other than the unproven claims of collusion with Russia), including sexual assaults of which I have little doubt he engaged.

But if you want to hang Trump, and only Trump, for such crimes, then please, at the very least, acknowledge the horrific crimes of the Obama administration in Libya, crimes for which Hillary Clinton is largely responsible. The rape, torture, slavery and mass murder of millions of innocents, children, women and men. If you do not or will not, then you are hypocrites. Bemoan the "sexism" that you claim destroyed Clinton's chances for victory over Donald Trump all you like, but ignoring the greater evil she perpetrated on the people of Libya is far worse.