Posted on 05/13/2004 4:19:27 PM PDT by Hatteras
Somehow, the fact that he's an "Orthodox" Jew makes me think that he would have bent over that much further during negotiations with Arab despots.
I can't imagine who J. Kerry would choose as his runningmate, but I have a sneaking feeling that it's going to be a lot worse then Algore's choice in 2000.
Alec Baldwin would still be living in the United States.
3 or 4 fewer idiotic movies coming out.
and we would all be in debt for the new "green" cars, as ours would have been condemned from road.
Also, we would all have red armbands and be best friends with China.
Well, after 9/11 Gore would have officially put large scale military action off the table.
You could expect an American commando team to have been sent into Afghanistan that would be doomed to failure.
Then he probably would tried bribing Afghanistan to turn over AQ which wouldn't have worked.
Finally he would have launch missile and air strikes that would have had little or no effect on AQ.
On the domestic side, a President Gore would have pursued a much more restrictive and much broader version of the Partriot Act.
Further, he would have not rounded up everyone with any sort of ties to AQ or Islamist terror as Bush did, and therefore the anthrax mailings could have continued to this day. Perhaps though, after spending more then a year in a failed search for a domestic mailer, with ever more letters turning up the FBI would be forced to finally look at the terrorism angle - but that is far from certain.
With AQ looking like the strong horse now in the Middle East, one coudl expect increased terror against our nominal allies like SA and Egypt. Both would probably fall. At best Pakistan would enter a partial alliance with the Islamists, at worst their would be a full alliance following a successful assassination attempt on Musharraf.
At home, there would have been several major terror attacks after 9/11. Perhaps using the anthrax drop tank that AQ seems to have have acquired from Hussein.
In mid to late 2004 there would be several major terror attacks designed to get the US to fold further, and the likelihood of SA leading an oil embargo on the US unless we agree to permanently abandon Israel. And then after Gore caved more demands.
Whoever the Reps then ran in 2004 would win but much like FDR in 1941 we would be starting so far behind the curve that the military action required would be much more difficult - almost certainly involving both sides using nuclear weapons.
The United States would have already paid out trillions to a Nigerian firm specializing in "reparations"... an investment...he would later claim he was the first to be contacted about this risky scheme to bring millions of US$ back to America ... after hearing of the scam Vice-President Daschle was deeply troubled
The terrorists would not have attacked the WTC, but it would have melted down from Global Warming.
Tipper would win American Idol.
Hillary would, weekly, send him invitations to meet at Fort Marcy Park.
He would try to meet her, but the Segway would run out of electricity before he could get there.
We have a winner. It ain't what's being done, it's all about who is doing it with them.
Arsnic in the drinking water would not be an issue.
You local electric utility would be hounded by the EPA.
Afghanistan would still be run by the Talliban and Saddam would still be playing hide and seek with the UN
By the way, my answers were pretty close to what I have seen from FR, though I laced them with some basic "higher taxes", "U.S. viewed as a paper tiger in the world community", "the world's longest, dullest, most drowsy State of the Union speeches in history"...etc.
>>You could expect an American commando team to have been sent into Afghanistan that would be doomed to failure.
No...they's send the Peace Corp to find out why they're so poor...and then send aid.
A new cabinet post; Department of Global Warming..
Not a single person on the planet except for President Gore would have actually stayed awake through his entire State of the Union address. An epidemic of terrible traffic accidents took place as it was broadcast live over the airwaves.
1) Saddam would have a summer home in Miami.
2) Israel would be flat, black and smokey.
3) Gas would be $2.00 per ga....oh, right things that would different.
4) I would be working for 7 mouths out of the entire year just to fully pay all of my taxes (property, sales, income, cap gains, and so on).
5) We would be entrenched in a civil war.
6) Farsi would be the new language of this country.
7) Our currency would say "In Allah we Trust"
8) Algore would have given us 50 more things that he thinks he invented.
9) Hitlary would still be a bitter evil witch (I changed it from the other word), but she would be trying to have an affair with Tipper.
10) Algore would be making the a list of all his criminal friends that will need pardons, because he knows its one term and out for him.
11) Free Republic would have 75 million new members.
12) Free Republic would be the new Political Party of choice and its candidate would be leading in the latest Zogby poll: by 69% and Algore with 5% and the rest being divided among the other smaller parties.
How's that for a start????
We would still be begging the French and the UN to let us invade Afghanistan.
1) Most of us would be dead.
2) The rest of us would be speaking Arabic.
3) Our only choices would be liberal shows on the radio,
and Al-Jezeera or Newsworld International on the T.V.
...not to mention a lot fewer idiotic books...
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