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What if John McCain won the Republican nomination, won the 2000 presidency, and invaded Iran instead of Iraq? According to research done about McCain, he was very pro-Israeli and anti-Iranian, and Iran was a bigger threat to Israel than Baathist Iraq. Ahmadinejad would become president in 2005 because eventually Iran would grow uncomfortable with the US in Afghanistan. The grounds for an Invasion of Iran would be Iran getting closer to detonating a nuclear bomb than in OTL. With no Invasion of Iraq, what would happen to Saddam? Who would become president in 2008? If Saddam was still in power past 2010, would an Iraqi-Russian Alliance be plausible or would Putin prefer Iraq's rival Assad? I would guess that Putin would try mediating Iraqi-Syrian rivalry and try to make anti-Americanism a common cause.
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