You have it assed backwards. George Bush invaded Iraq at the request of the U.N. secretary general but he went to Congress for permission. 9-11 terrorists were attending flight school in Florida while the CIA was enabling Clinton to bomb freaking Europe. You almost gotta laugh that the CIA maps were so old that the bombers took out the Chinese embassy by mistake. The bottom line is that the U.S. media cheered the Clinton administration for it's murder of Yugoslavian farmers and civilians and that's a scary indication of what can happen when the media becomes the propaganda arm of a democrat administration..Hillary's husband bombed a country in Europe as part of a UN peacekeeping force, at the direct request of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Since 6 1/2 years of investigations of all things Clinton went on, there would have been no time during his Presidency, that Clinton wasn't under the cloud of the investigation.
You can't claim that this was a "wag the dog" attempt at all, since Clinton really had to be convinced to do this. Clinton didn't want to commit US forces to this because there were no "American interests" in Bosnia.