] At what point will the United States be able to declare
] that the regime has changed? When President Hussein is
] captured or dead? When his elite 25,000-man Special
] Republican Guard surrenders? Or, when the top 2,000
] members of the ruling Baath Party have been purged from
] government?

Or not until free elections have taken place?

Regime change: How will we know when we've won?