Bolton: Iran regime can stay if ends arms pursuit
May 22, 2006

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on Monday that Iran's leaders could stay in power and improve their ties with Washington if they ended their pursuit of nuclear arms.

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"...if (the rulers in Tehran) give up their long-standing support for terrorism and they give up their pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, that their regime can stay in place and that they can have a different relationship with the United States and the rest of the world," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060522/pl_nm/...

Now, why does that ring a bell?... Oh, yeah!...

Saddam can stay if he disarms, Powell says
October 22, 2002

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Mr Powell, raising the possibility that the US might not seek "regime change" as it has repeatedly promised over the past 18 months, said on Sunday that if Saddam abandoned his chemical, nuclear, and biological programs, the Government would be altered so dramatically that in effect the goal would be reached.

"We think the Iraqi people would be a lot better off with a different leader, a different regime," he said, "but the principal offence here is weapons of mass destruction ... The major issue before us is disarmament."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/21/...

God damn.