ABSTRACT
Introduction Towards the end of the Clinton administration support for a new US policy towards Iraq based explicitly on regime change gathered momentum. Senior and influential members of Congress became disillusioned with Clinton’s containment and containment-plus policies and advocated radical change through the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act. As George W. Bush assumed the presidency Congressional supporters of the ILA continued to advocate aggressive action against Saddam Hussein. They beseeched the new administration to adopt regime change as the centrepiece of its Iraq policy and designate it an urgent priority.
