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The story is the same as with Bill Clinton's war in Europe. The difference is that Clinton hardly got any Americans hurt at all bombing civilians from way up in the sky. We are only going to talk about how Bush's conflict was conducted, not if it was an illegal aggression and a mistake from the get-go.
Regardless of one's opinions about "Clinton's war" in former Yugoslavia, there are a couple of important distinctions.
1) Europeans were begging for American intervention. Across the board, there was European unanimity for military force to be used, led by America. That doesn't make it justified, but it is a big difference to European (sans Spain and Britain) opposition to the U.S war on Iraq.
2) The target of American bombs in Yugoslavia was Christians who were fighting a religious war against Muslims. It is easy for the neocon and Christianists to oppose a war which doesn't target Muslims, which they did and still do.
