iraq war

POD is Ross Perot begins his 1992 Presidential campaign with James Stockdale as his running mate by founding the Reform Party in 1990 as a protest to the beginning of negotiations for NAFTA . For the 1990 Congressional elections he has his party candidates stand all seats in the Congress and...

What if Colin Powell, rather than going along with the administration's justification for the Iraq War, followed his intuition that the war was wrong and resigned from his position as Secretary of State in protest? Would this kill Dubya's efforts to justify the war? Or would the US go to war...

Saddam Hussein for whatever reason decides to drop his anti-American and anti-Western stance (and by extension his anti-Israel rhetoric) agreeing to all of the demands of the UN and IAEA and expressing a strong desire for Iraq to return within the fold ‘of the civilized world.’ The United States...

Ok, my scenario revolves around a "90s War on terror" setting where the main PoD is the successful 1993 WTC bombing. In 1993, US invades Sudan which hosted Al-Qaeda at the time. Let's say that in the second half of 1990s another major terrorist attack occures in US or UK. Clinton or...

So, Bush doesn't invade Iraq because he either dies suddenly or is not elected in 2000. Everything else before with 9/11 stays the same as well as the invasion of Afghanistan. What are the butterflies? Does the "War on Terror" go more smoothly and will extremists still proliferate worldwide? Can...

From Wikipedia:

Say, in another timeline, another Iran-Iraq War happens instead of an American war on Iraq in the early 2000s. You can choose who gets to invade or declare war "first", be it the Iranians or the Iraqis in this war to be the "scapegoat". What circumstances would've lead to this? Can it be the...

one of the most controversial decisions by the Gore administration was the Iraq war in 2003. we could understand why the Gore administration would have launched the war, as they were out of options when Airstrikes did nothing to achieve its goals. and democratic establishment's support for the...

I posted this on the main 'Discussion of Events after 1900' thread and got an in depth reply, but I'm still kind of stumped on where to take my universe. My timeline's POD is a successful Reagan assassination in 1981. Bush takes over after, and the line of succession is as follows: 1980-81...

Since the creation the end of the Rhodesian Bush War and the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 which led to the transformation of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe relations between the United Kingdom and its former colony have generally been less than friendly. Various sources have...

I was searching through the forum and stumbled upon this very interesting post describing a scenario where the United States invades and occupies many other countries in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks: Springboarding from this, I wanted to know if anyone else had different...

If Tony Blair didn’t help in the invasion of Iraq, would he keep his 100+ majority in 2005? How would this effect future elections?

In October of 2008, the US launched a raid into Syria allegedly to attack al-Qaeda militants that were supporting the insurgency in Iraq. Syria condemned the action and called it an act of aggression. Let's say that the raid caused a war between America and Syria - maybe the raid goes terribly...

In 2004, John Kerry wanted his friend John McCain to be his running mate on a bipartisan "unity ticket." Polling from May 2004 showed that a Kerry/McCain ticket had a 14% lead over Bush among registered voters. McCain showed interested but he ultimately declined and endorsed Bush. Curiously...

The 2004 US Presidential Election was very close: had only one state (Ohio) flipped to John Kerry, George W. Bush would've been a one term President. Bush is often considered one of America's worst Presidents, and many wonder why he was re-elected despite a weak economy, the Abu Ghraib scandal...

The Iraq War seems to me to have profoundly affected the British political landscape, mainly to the effect of boosting the Liberal Democrats while weakening the Labour Party, and Tony Blair himself. How would recent British political history have played out, had Blair decided against following...

I admit, I know nothing about these games (other than memes) as I'm more into shooters like DOOM, but I've always wondered about the impact of post-9/11/2001 events on the storylines these games focus on, how they sell and are received/reviewed/etc. I see that the first game to not take place...

Operation Red Dawn (indeed named after that 80’s movie) was an US military operation undertaken in december 2003 with the objective of capturing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was trying to flee to a region to the centre of Iraq known as the “Sunni Triangle”, a strong base of support for his...

The 2008 US Presidential elections by the failure of the Iraq War and the financial crisis. But what would the election have looked like without these two issues? Who would be the Republican and Democratic nominees? Who would win the election?

What if Senator Hillary Clinton had voted against the Iraq War? Would she have defeated Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries? If nominated, would she have beaten McCain in the general? How would US history have been different if Clinton had opposed the war?