A distraction removed, A Saddam falls in 1991 ATL

Does Bush Jr. even run without the resentment over Saddam's assassination attempt over his daddy?

I left a clue in the last update, plus given he worked on his father 1988 campaign and the 1991 election I think its fair to say he was being groomed.
 
I wonder if this added bit of resume would further tempt Powell or Schwarzkopf to run for higher office.
Powell never came off as that ambitious to me, but I dunno about Scharzkopf.

I'm honestly interested in how an earlier overthrow will go, and hope that Iraq does better this time around and creates something stable.
 
Rebuilding Iraq part 1


Whilst victorious in the elections the Iraqi National Movement still had it work cut out for it, as Iraq was a still a mess in the aftermath of the revolution.


The INM begun working on and implementing several strategies to rebuild the Iraqi economy with the long term goal being the partial privatisation of Iraq’s oil industry to raise money to reinvest in the Iraqi economy. And this process had started shortly after the election


In the short term however there were more immediate issues that couldn’t wait. Many Iraqi’s had no/limited access to water, food and electricity due to damage caused by the fighting. Whilst the army was ordered to help distribute food and water (plus clear the remaining debris) these utilities had to be fixed/ restored. To accomplish this the Iraqi’s turned to the Gulf States for help, which they received. The Gulf States construction corporations were hired for help with the restoration.

One of the major one's unfortunately were the family of the man who would commit the worse act of terrorism on US soil*
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This was the beginning of a form of integration with the Gulf States as they were also interested in Iraqi oil and the INM were interested in replicating the relative success of the Gulf States. Another factor was that considering the alliance of the Gulf States and the US it made since to join this bloc.


However they needed to tread carefully as they didn’t want to upset the Shia vote (turn it against them) from becoming too associated with monarchies (namely the Saudi’s) infamous for their repression of Shia populations so a ‘great balancing act was needed in order build better relations and not risk future elections.


On top of this they had to negotiate with the Kurdish fractions for the creation of the Kurdish Regional Government namely the delegated powers and set a time for elections to take place for the KRG government as well.

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The agreed upon territory for the KRG.


* Osama's family owns the largest contortion firm in the Wold so I thought it would only be natural at this point that they would be involved in rebuilding areas of Iraq as part of any agreement with Saudi Arabia, I will stress that this doesn't automatically results in AL-Qeda links being established as he has been called the black sheep of the family many times.
 
Hi Guys

I will be sad to announce that TTL will be on hold for the time being due to events in real life however don't expect this to be the end of it or any work on thing set within TTL as I plan on writing a few stories set in this TL however in the meantime I found a video which might give you guys some clues as to what expect with the future of TTL

 
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