Republicans have been howling for some time that Hillary Clinton should go to jail for mishandling classified email. Now, an FBI report, which rejects calls for an indictment, has dashed their hopes. Yet still they howl.

One has to wonder if any of them read the long-awaited Chilcot report on the Iraq War that was released in England last week. Have the Republicans howling for Clinton's incarceration noticed that Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush were thoroughly damned in no uncertain terms for the distortion of facts and outright lies that led to the invasion of Iraq? Yes, Clinton set up and used an email system that exposed classified information. But no one, not even Republicans, has suggested that the incompetency was deliberate. That kind of amateurish carelessness is inexcusable, but whether or not it rises to the level of an indictment is debatable.

On the other hand, that Bush and Blair lied to get us into war is not debatable. The Chilcot report clearly establishes that the two leaders collaborated on finding phony justification for a war they wanted.

As a result, 4,500 American soldiers died and tens of thousands were maimed. Well over a 100,000 Iraqis — most of them innocent civilians — died during the invasion and afterward. The cost of the war helped to ruin our economy, and we're still paying for it today.

Saddest of all, the war's stated goal — to establish a "free" and stable Iraq — was not accomplished. In fact, a case can be made that the Iraq war's most significant outcome was the destabilization of the entire Middle East. All this based on lies.

Yet Bush and Blair collect healthy pensions for their service as leaders of their respective countries and Republicans aren't talking about jail for them. The hypocrisy is astounding.