Could you imagine how the MSM would have been all over President Bush if he did something similar in Iraq?
Yes, and they would have been all over it at the first whiff of a potential scandal, true or not.
Unfortunately, to a large extent, because Clinton's actions in the Balkans were never subject real scrutiny, I think that President Bush also thought that he might not be forced to answer a lot of hard questions re Iraq. But given the Liberal bent of the media, this was not true. What was true for the goose was not true for the gander. Clinton was literally allowed to get away with murder, while Bush gets grilled for every detail and potential detail.