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The proposal Is very sfmTiar to'ideas pro'posed iast'June by Pen.tagon staffers In the~Bush
review discus~lons.·But c:onsensus was never reache,d ins.i~e the QQvernment.
administration's Iran policy'
The amend~ent does not c~1I for regime change'per..se, but It.does state, "Del1locratic change within Iran ~ould .
contribute greatly to Increasing the stability of the entire region and would serve as a beacon to·the p'eople of Iraq and
Saudi Arabia to als~ seek der'!'l0cratic reform from within." . .
This language hi the amendr:nent is very sim!lar to the'Iraq Liberation Act, ~hi.ch Congress, pa~sed in 1998. That
legislation first enshrined regime change as' an .open policy goal for. the UniteCi States in Iraq.· Sen. Brownback was an
early supporter and a~thor of the legislation. ~ . .
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