Nobody, not even us legalization advocates, supports "anything goes" marijuana storefronts, sales and advertising to kids, public medication, and shady gang-connected distributions, any more than we'd support that regime for alcohol for tobacco.
Mr Bush was able to say publicly that he supported regime change but, for political and legal reasons, Mr Blair was constrained from following suit.
Conservatives outside of Congress have been drumming up support for regime change for years.
He has suggested support for regime change in both countries.
I had the impression that there was widespread, if privately held, support for regime change.
In the fall of 2002 General McCaffrey joined the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group formed with White House encouragement to fan support for regime change.
For example his foreign affairs adviser, David Manning, told the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the same month that Blair "would not budge in [his] support for regime change".
US support for regime change undoubtedly inflames the situation, since Washington has so much influence within the opposition and, of course, in the hemispheric media.
On North Korea, Pompeo made headlines last summer, when he implied, in a speech at the Aspen Security Forum, support for regime change in North Korea.
Eight years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, that statement meant western support for regime change in another Arab capital.
