From the Atlantic Monthly, March 2003, a transcript of James Fallows' Oct. 21, 2002 interview with former President Bill Clinton.

Clinton:
[...]
"But in terms of just not marching on Baghdad, it's not fair to criticize former President Bush, because he couldn't have had the international coalition if he'd done it.

"He honored his word. But I do think they want to do it. And I also think a lot of them believe...that they gotta have an enemy, keep America thinking about it all the time. But I think a lot of them really believe that the Iraqis would be better off without him and could handle it. That's my instinct too, by the way. My instinct is that the Iraqis will do pretty well when he's gone. It's just that we can't go around deposing people without global support. We just can't do it. Just like we can't, you know... every African leader I know wants [Robert] Mugabe [the president-turned-tyrant of Zimbabwe] gone. But they'd be mad if we sent fifty thousand soldiers to depose him."

(edited slightly for clarity, and my emphasis - sp)

I would only add that, even with global support, we just can't go around deposing people.

Every nation has the right to self-determination - the fundamental principle of statehood. If it is not sacred, then nothing is, and we're back to the law of the jungle.

sp