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On what the US requires: the administration has been clear that its policy has been regime change, but when they announced that they were going to the UN, the policy wavered. At one point Bush said that if Saddam were to give up his WMD, it would be an indicator of regime change -- meaning, a full and obvious change in how Iraq acts and what it's capable of doing.
This has happened before: when Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi, or Khaddafy or Quadafai or however you want to spell it, took a missile in his backside and decided to play nicely from there on out.
They say it's been a boon to Libya and that Libya has even played nicely in the War on Terror. The Colonel understood: play nice with the US, and the world, and you pretty much win; you can BE a nutty "evil dictator" type and rule for life. You can fuck with your own people as much as you like, but you can't fuck with anyone else.
Don't think that Hussein hasn't been offered some sort of deal. He could live in Mr. Khaddafi's country, in first class luxury for the rest of his life, if he wanted.
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