You assume far to much.. you are using your jaded thoughts to assume that this all had to do with a "double standard" As if things were really that simple. Hate to break it to you. But it's not exactly a double standard with the issues are different. If you are going to even attempt to suggest that the situations of Kosovo and Iraq are the same.. well good luck to you.. but if you are intellegent to realize the situations are different... logic asserts that it simply cannot be a double standard. Kosovo hinged on the backside of Rowanda.. now I'm not saying even those situations are close to being alike. But the key point here is that instead of waiting for hundreds of thousands to die like in Rowanda we marched on to Serbia to avoid the public humliation the nations of the earth suffered in their handling of Rowanda(not to mention the govt's guilt). In any case as I recall the behind the scenes politics was that they were going to go to the UN but that Russia was going to veto any resoultions that anything to do with Serbia. Which was clearly implied in their actions from the onset of the war.
"But the key point here is that instead of waiting for hundreds of thousands to die like in Rowanda we marched on to Serbia to avoid the public humliation the nations of the earth suffered in their handling of Rowanda(not to mention the govt's guilt)."
Oh come on, what embarrassment did other countries "suffer" over Rwanda? Clinton came, after the genocide, to make a little speech from his plane - the plane's engines were never turned off the whole time he was there, and he even was smiling much of the time (rather looked like smirking to me).
Another factor was that France was shipping heavy weapons to the Hutus (the ones who macheted and murdered around 800,000 Tutsi civilians in about 100 days) before and during the massacre. France was very close with the Hutu regime which openly made genocidal statements before the massacre. France even tried to rescue some of the Hutu criminals after the massacre in “Operation Turquoise”. Did France's actions show it to be "embarrassed"? No, it showed it to be complicit.
UN soldiers were in Rwanda before the massacre. They had people gather in schools, churches, hospitals, etc. guarded by the UN only to abandon them just as the Tutsis were concentrated at these places. The excuse for the UN to pull out was the murder of 10 Belgian soldiers – perhaps it was a sacrifice of the soldiers done in order to give the UN that excuse.