When it was a matter of helping the al Qa'eda funded Bosnians and Kosovars, the U.N. was not to be consulted, NATO would take care of matters on its own, the Christian Serbs would be bombed, their land occupied, even though they had never violated international law, and in the case of the Bosnian Serbs were simply demanding the same right of secession the Bosnian Muslims had exercised, and in the case of Kosovo were fighting an insurgency in the spiritual heartland of their people. Specious charges of "genocide" were invented to justify the action.
When the U.S. proposes action against Iraq, whose regime has launched wars of agression, committed truely genocidal acts, violates international law on a daily basis, the U.N. must be consulted. NATO can't act, . . .
The French and Germans are led by the continental Left, which loathes Western civilization as it loathes Christianity which was that civilization's foundation, and consequently has a soft spot in its shrivelled heart for Muslims. The Clintonistas merrily went along with it. To the extent that the U.S. and Britain are able to patrol the Muslim areas of the former Yugoslavia, it may not have worked out that badly, though I'm sure the Yugoslav army would have done just fine at rooting out al Qa'eda if we hadn't provided the other side with an air force. But, we'd jolly well better soon realize that Milosevic, Karadic, et al. were fighting our enemies, and stop backing the Euro-trash in criminalizing vigorous responses to Muslim terrorism.