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To: tejek who wrote (281345)	3/24/2006 5:48:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573941

Saddam might have posed a greater risk, but Iran was a risk as well, and that risk would have been much greater if it had won an overwhelming victory over Iraq. Iran has over the past few decades been perhaps the biggest state supporter of terrorists in the world. Also Iran has at times presented a threat to the flow of oil in the gulf. Certainly it would not have been in the US interest for Iraq under Saddam to have decisively defeated Iran, but the opposite was not in our interest either. The idea at the time was to maintain a balance of power between them.