9/11 Goes Nuclear: A Collaborative Timeline

It would be more likely that the impaired President Bush would give the order resulting in everyone in earshot would invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment as opposed to someone confirming the President's order to launch.
It's not like they could easily tell he wasn't in his right mind.
 

SsgtC

Banned
Physically impossible to do. No single person can authorize a nuclear weapons release. Hence the two man rule. SOMEONE has to confirm the launch order. Trying to launch via executive order would be ignored as an illeagl order and would likely result in the Cabinet and Congress declaring a Presidential Incapacitation with the Vice President assuming the duties of the President until the incapacitation no longer exists

Bush decided to make the missile launch an executive order, since one, he wasn't in the right frame of mind due to his tumor and two, he thought it was necessary to go right to annihilation of Afghanistan without input from his advisers.
 
October 23, 2001: George W. Bush dies from his injuries, making Cheney the 44th President of the United States

October 25, 2001: North Korean and South Korean forces clash in the DMZ, with 14 North Koreans and 7 South Koreans killed and 24 North Koreans and 18 South Koreans injured.
 
October 24, 2001: Mecca is hit by several rockets causing 430 deaths. In Tehran and in Saudi-Arabia massive protests are held against Italy.

October 25, 2001: In a television address to the Italian people. Silvio Berlusconi explained that Italy is not responsible for the attack on Mecca. However anger in the Middle East is rising with many anti-Italian riots. Kim-Jong-Il orders the attack on Seoul. Causing the US to intervene in Korea. Russia and China announce that they do not wish to intervene however they request restraint against Pyong-Yang. A second nuclear attack would result in war between Russia and the US.

October 27, 2001: George Bush Junior is laid in State. In a speech on national television Dick Cheney pays tribute to George Bush Junior. Former President Bill Clinton has gone to Austin to pay hommage to Bush junior. "On a day like this we are all Americans. And my heartfelt sympathies go out to the Bush family." The death of George W. Bush also marks the end of the feud between the Bushes and the Clintons.

October 28, 2001: The US is falling into a resession. The State Funeral of George W. Bush takes place. A day of mourning is observed in the US.

November 1st 2001: The State Funeral of Pope John Paul II takes place in Rome. In most European countries, a day of mourning is observed.

November 2nd 2001: In Amsterdam a school is taken hostage by the "Soldiers of the Mahdi" in Rotterdam the leader of "Leefbaar Nederland" is killed and a bomb explodes at the Central Station of Utrecht killing 59 people. The Dutch react with shock and anger and in many cities mosques and muslim institutions are vandalized or burned to the ground. Causing riots in Den Haag and Amsterdam.
 
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October 28, 2001: Pervez Musharaff dies of a sudden heart attack in his office in Pakistan. A power struggle soon develops in Islamabad as factions in the military and government.

November 3, 2001: Air France Flight 114 disappears from radar screens in the mid-Atlantic with 310 passengers and crew onboard (I'll leave it to the next poster whether any celebrities were onboard).

November 4, 2001: Bashar Al-Assad is assassinated in Damascus, Syria by an unknown gunman, leaving a power vacuum in Syria.

November 6, 2001: President Cheney gives the infamous "Axis of Evil" speech where he identifies North Korea, Iraq, and Libya as part of an "Axis of Evil" which threathens the "Free World'. Declassified documents would later indicate President Cheney initially intended to add Iran to said list but balked at the last second and replaced it with Libya.
 
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November 8 2001: riots in the Netherlands get even more violent with the Dutch government sending in riot police after an Islamic family was dragged and beaten in the streets.
 
What do you think of Iran not being part of TTL's Axis of Evil but Libya and Pakistan being part of it?

I think it's kind of smart because after the bombing of Mecca Saudi Arabia is going to want revenge against the west but at the same time the USA will want revenge against Saudi terrorists so when that inevitable split happens the USA can realign its interests with Iran in return for them not threatening to blow up Israel.
 
Terror in the Netherlands
November 9, 2001:
Dutch neo-nazis set fire to several mosques in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam it turns to tragedy when 12 people die in the blaze.
November 10, 2001: As retalliation the "Soldiers of the Mahdi" kill 74 schoolchildren before blowing themselves up. In Berlin and London far-left organizations hold anti-Dutch demonstrations. In Tehran the crowd chants "Death to the Netherlands". Saudi Arabia refuses to sell oil to the Dutch after the attacks in the Netherlands. Begin of the Second European Oil Crisis
November 12, 2001: Dutch PM Wim Kok declares martial law on the entire Netherlands. Kok is the first Dutch leader to do so after Dirk Jan de Geer in 1940.
November 17, 2001: Martial law is lifted. The opposition plus the governing party D66 vote against Wim Kok in a vote of no confidence. The coalition of PvdA (Labour), VVD (Liberals) and D66 (Progressives) comes to an end. A temporary government led by Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (CDA, Christian Democrats) is formed. The government consists of CDA, PvdA, the Green Party and the VVD. New elections are set for March 2002.
November 19, 2001: In Amsterdam a memorial is held for the terror victims. Afterwards Queen Beatrix, Prince Claus, who is terminally ill, Prince Willem-Alexander go to Utrecht to visit a mosque to show solidarity with the muslims in the Netherlands/

The USA
November 8 - John Hagee causes uproar by claiming on Fox News that the death of George W. Bush was Gods will.
November 10 - President Cheney gives an address to the American People in which he urges the Americans to be tolerant towards muslims. "Freedom is perverted when we deny other folks the right to worship the way they want." Cheney condemns both the attacks on the mosques and killing of innocent schoolchildren.

Italy
November 13 -
Silvio Berlusconi is defeated in a vote of no confidence. Leaving Italy in the worse political crisis since 1946.
 
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