People, when you say that it's senators or congressmen and presidents who make the politics these days, you are wrong. As kidkboom has just pointed out - they are dump people mentally incapable of doing anything real. Moreover - they have no real instruments of doing anything major. A government (any government) simply represents the owner of money who had brought them on the political pinnacle to express their views and interests. I still think that this world is ruled by 200-300 powerful families (or clans) and everything that is happenning in the world is done for their profit. When some political or economical event happens I ask myself - who benefits from this? Old buddy Hercule Poirot used this trick many times and always succeeded in finding out who the criminal was.
I won't ever believe that Nicolas Sarkozy or David Cameron or Hillary Clinton could start a war merely for the defense of 'innocent civilians molested by the evil regimes'. I won't ever believe that political circles in France, UK or USA even cared about these poor victims of dictatorships. I won't believe they ever cared about anything but their continued well-being.
@Crocodile: I don't know whether the Gaddafi's intentions triggered an attack on him or not, but the official story they tell us about why we are bombing Libya is even less plausible. And no, I don't think it concerns oil directly. I can only think of other player who might be interested in the removal of Gaddafi - Saudi Arabya. Perhaps some kind of a bargain has taken place between EU and the Saudis, I don't know.