Demonstrations alone almost never topple a regime, but they can do so in combination with other political shifts, which can happen suddenly.

Even so, ousting Saddam will not be easy.

Time to go out to the square and topple this regime!

Time to go out to the square and topple this regime!

Did they want to topple the Saakashvili regime in 2008?

There are many dictatorships in the world that the US does not try to overthrow.

Hopes that a popular uprising might topple the regime have fizzled.

But obstructing is far from overthrowing.

At long last the dollar would be challenged perhaps even dethroned.

As always, it is easier to bring down an autocracy than to construct and consolidate a democratic regime.

Yet he was jailed for inciting subversion of state power.

Tunisians succeeded in ousting a dictator and are now trying to build a true democracy.

But, as someone who led a peaceful revolution, I hope that pride is tempered by pragmatism, because a change of regime is only the first step in establishing a democracy backed by the rule of law.

Egyptians and Tunisians are right to be proud of their desire to peacefully overthrow despotic governments.

Talk to me some more about a fragile regime which thinks that a photograph that ridicules it can overthrow it

In moving to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, the Bush administration stakes its case on two critical arguments.

As the example of Saddam Hussein teaches us anew, to overturn a monument is easier than to try a dictator.

Many foreign jihadists respond to the prospect of helping to overthrow a tyrannical Alawite ruler who is killing Sunnis.

But to insist that protesters, old and young, fathers and mothers, numbering as many as 150,000, were willing to risk their lives sitting under a scorching Tropical sun for two months only for money strains credulity.

It is not difficult to overthrow Saddam, but it is impossible to predict who or what will take his place.

It is also likely that some radical hot heads wanted to overthrow the government by mob action.

The notion that Liu might be capable of subverting the immense power of the Communist Party of China is patently absurd.

It is much more difficult to overthrow a religious dictatorship rather than a non religious one.

In the case of the resolution on military intervention in Libya, the BRICS decided to let Col. Muammar el Qaddafi be overthrown.

South Korean students filling the streets of Seoul in 1986 could not have ended the authoritarian military government either.

According to the Turkish constitution, it is illegal for any agency, even the military, to try to overthrow a democratically elected government.

For decades, Cuban government and intelligence agencies have routinely thwarted US government efforts to infiltrate or overthrow the Castro government.

In late April 2009, security forces arrested 40 opposition figures, accusing them of trying to topple the government.

The Red Shirts are planning to stage a million man march on March 14, Sunday, to topple the current administration.

In these circumstances, there will be inevitable calls for the West namely the US to overthrow the tyrant militarily.

Overthrowing a totalitarian regime and organizing elections may be hard, but the harder task is to go from voting to establishing a true democracy.

The hour has come to bring down the regime, the extremist ideologue, Jean Jacques Susini declared. The revolution will start from Algiers and reach Paris.

They seem to believe that they can eventually bring down the Greek government by bullying it into accepting an agreement that contravenes its mandate.

Arab youth have no Soviet Union to cast off and no Europe to join.

When the Nasserite party attempted to overthrow Saleh less than 100 days into his presidency, al Ahmar defended him and quashed the coup.

But Kaczynski, a member of Solidarity in the 1980 s who was eager to overthrow the communist regime, was more mistrustful of the Russians than Tusk.

The determination in the West to depose him in the name of human rights and democracy was perceived by the Sunni majority as an opportunity to overthrow their oppressor.

They condemn the lack of jobs, corruption and the deterioration of human rights in their countries, leading revolts until the fall of the oppressive regime.

In a separate incident, local authorities arrested a social activist in Nghệ An province the evening before Nga s trial and charged him with attempting to overthrow the state.

That is why, in order to have a chance to catch up with the rest of the free, developed world, many of them are now risking their lives to remove those regimes.

Cynics explain this by saying that our AOrange ideals were never anything but the rationalizations of one set of oligarchs struggling to overthrow another.

Since 2011, the CIA and US allies have poured in weapons, finance, and training in an attempt to topple President Bashar al Assad.

That talk is sending shudders across Europe, where many people connect it with America's oft stated desire to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.

As America's debate over toppling Saddam Hussein's regime intensifies, Russia is moving to center stage. This week Russia signed a 40 billion trade and economic cooperation treaty with Iraq while meeting Iranian leaders to discuss nuclear non proliferation.

But the only military option so far put before us is invasion to change the regime that is, full scale war.