Each was a democratically elected leader whom we opposed and then deposed with involvement of the C.I.A.
Attempts to influence the internal politics in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan backfired, when pro-Russian leaders were deposed with the help of Western governments in a series of so-called color revolutions.
Mr Blair speculated that, had Saddam not been deposed, with the oil price at $100 a barrel, "he would have had the intent and he would have had the means [to produce WMD], and we would have lost our nerve".
As he looks around the world, he sees cases like that of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, an authoritarian who gave up his nascent nuclear program, only to be deposed, with American help, as soon as his people turned against him.
Other senior Brotherhood figures, including supreme guide Mohammed Badie and his deputy and former presidential candidate Khairat al-Shater, are also facing a raft of charges, At least 1,000 people have died in clashes between security forces and pro-Morsi protesters since he was deposed, with thousands more arrested.
A regime that would allow over a million of its citizens to die of starvation cares less about its people's well-being than avoiding the fate of Sadaam Hussein and Muammar Ghadafi, who were deposed with American military force after agreeing to give up their nuclear programs.
But in 1870, the vain French emperor blundered into a foolish quarrel with Prussia and was deposed, along with the style that had become his trademark.
They made it clear that they were ready to start a war to depose Saddam Hussein, with or without the endorsement of the United Nations.
On one level, Mr. Tenet's Central Intelligence Agency and Mr. Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress parted company years ago, when the Iraqi group was still a band of exiles hoping to depose Saddam Hussein with American help.
Such trying circumstances have led to a souring of the royal couple's relationship and they are now engaged in a Machiavellian battle of wills, with Nala planning to depose her husband with the help of the ever-disenfranchised hyenas.
Somoza then deposed Sacasa with the support of factions of both Liberals and Conservatives, and in a rigged election he became president on January 1 , 1937
