DBWI: 10 years

JoeMulk

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Well tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the untimely assassination of President Gore. We remember what happened on that fateful morning when he was giving a speech outside the World Trade Center outlining his agenda for green urban renewal when he was tragically shot by a madman. How would this decade be different if President Gore had survived?
 
My guess:

War On Terror: Assuming that the Mad Man was from AlQaeda, we would still see something like Bush`s War On Terror but much more focused in finding and punishing (killing) AlQaeda high profile names than invading countries or dealing with Taliban.

Economy: 2001 - 2002 Dot.Com recession would be much more deep and severe, maybe extending until 2003 and a slower recovery as OTL 2008 - ? Great Recession....good news is that this recession would be solved using "normal" expansionist policies and not the almost zero interest rates of OTL Alan Greenspan...so, no housing bubble and no 2008 - ? Lost Decade.

Politics: As usual, Americans would rally for President Lieberman from late 2001 until 2002 maybe early 2003, but recession and lack of "a clear revenge" (murdering terrorist in far away caves is not so visual than invading Iraq) would take a toll of the Lieberman presidency.
 
My guess:

War On Terror: Assuming that the Mad Man was from AlQaeda, we would still see something like Bush`s War On Terror but much more focused in finding and punishing (killing) AlQaeda high profile names than invading countries or dealing with Taliban.

Economy: 2001 - 2002 Dot.Com recession would be much more deep and severe, maybe extending until 2003 and a slower recovery as OTL 2008 - ? Great Recession....good news is that this recession would be solved using "normal" expansionist policies and not the almost zero interest rates of OTL Alan Greenspan...so, no housing bubble and no 2008 - ? Lost Decade.

Politics: As usual, Americans would rally for President Lieberman from late 2001 until 2002 maybe early 2003, but recession and lack of "a clear revenge" (murdering terrorist in far away caves is not so visual than invading Iraq) would take a toll of the Lieberman presidency.


OOC: Not the appropriate response to a DBWI, which isn't even what its supposed to be.
 
You have to recall that the Gore assassination was a retaliation for the April 23rd 2001 raid on OBL's Tora Bora complex by Seal Team Six. Those guys saved our asses, though half of them died in the raid. They captured plans to hijack seven planes sometime in September or And crash them into both towers of the World Trade Center, hit the Pentagon and the Capitol, hit the Lyondell refinery and Union Carbide in Texas to cause gasoline shortages and close the Houston Ship Channel, and hit an undisclosed target on the West Coast. probably Long Beach in California. I agree with most experts that they could probably have attacked at most four targets, probably only those on the east coast. But some of the trainee pilots were arrested. Did they have more pilots in reserve?

This really put legitimacy behind Gore's legacy. We all know Gore won the popular vote. But it was the Florida Putsch that put him over the top. Two thousand voters denied the vote because they had future felony convictions dated 2006 stormed Tallahassee, and a few went to DC and camped out on the steps of the US Supreme Court. Thousands of protesters stormed in to Washington, and the Court understood we might have a revolution on our hands if they ruled for W.

We all know there are all kind of crazy conspiracy theories about this. And I kinda believe some of them. I think heat streess could have caused the WTC towers to fall, though records show that even OBL, a fairly good engineer, thought this was unlikely. But what I don't believe is that the Jews killed Gore. I'm not a total wingnut. On every 911 truther site, it always comes down to the Jews killing Gore. We know it was Atta, the pilot trainee who got away.

Lieberman used his new credibility to push through a new form of cap and trade and introduced a car trade in subsidy program similar to what was already in place in a few counties in Texas. I got me a new car with a three thou discount through
"Cash For Smokers" although my aging car was not that much a high emission vehicle. My income was too high to qualify for the State program. But Cash For Smokers was tested here first and income restrictions were relaxed.

But now we live in darker times. GM and Chrysler didn't get that much a share of the Cash for Smokers subsidy and are now on the verge of collapse. What will Biden do? Should He do Anything?

Lieberman declined to run again as th e jew-baiting Truth Party with all their conspiracy theories made headway in the 2002 midterms. Lieberman stood down and Biden was nominated . The Republicans ran lame-ass McCain
 
They captured plans to hijack seven planes sometime in September or And crash them into both towers of the World Trade Center, hit the Pentagon and the Capitol, hit the Lyondell refinery and Union Carbide in Texas to cause gasoline shortages and close the Houston Ship Channel, and hit an undisclosed target on the West Coast. probably Long Beach in California. I agree with most experts that they could probably have attacked at most four targets, probably only those on the east coast. But some of the trainee pilots were arrested. Did they have more pilots in reserve?

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We all know there are all kind of crazy conspiracy theories about this. And I kinda believe some of them. I think heat streess could have caused the WTC towers to fall, though records show that even OBL, a fairly good engineer, thought this was unlikely. But what I don't believe is that the Jews killed Gore. I'm not a total wingnut. On every 911 truther site, it always comes down to the Jews killing Gore. We know it was Atta, the pilot trainee who got away.


I think most of us could agree those plans were really verging on the fantastic. No-one has ever managed to hijack that many planes simultaneously, let alone then pilot any number of them in kamikaze fashion to hit specific targets. Pentagon, Capitol, the WTC? Come on. These guys barely had the skills to fly small private aircraft. To hit targets this small one would probably need skilled, experienced (military) pilots.

Was US airport security ever lax enough to allow this, by the way? Even before the overhaul of the security measures and the creation of the TSA during the Lieberman administration?

If Atta or any of his buddies managed to hit, say, the World Trade Center at all, instead of plunging the out-of-control airplanes into the Hudson River, the towers would have pretty certainly not collapsed. They are heavily reinforced structures and being merely hit by an aircraft, even if of the size they planned to use has never been enough to collapse a comparable building in the real world. Really, accomplishing something like that would require additional, pre-planned measures to weaken the structures: and if we start to think about that we are so far into conspiracy theory cloud-cuckoo land it is not sane anymore.

Agree with you on the Jew thing though, these conspirationists are truly out there to suggest the Israeli government would be complicit in Bin Laden's megalomaniac, probably drug-induced and outright unrealizable plans.


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