DBWI: WI President Gore had ordered the invasion of Iraq

Please, don´t start a flame war. This is not about the question, if the Iraq-war is right or wrong. I just want know, would Gore still be defeated in 2004 or could he win reelection.
I mean, beside that the Reps throw the full blame for 9/11 on Clinton and Gore and that the 9/11-recession wasn´t still over, McCains "Bomb Iraq"-slogan seems a big reason for the republican landslide.
 
OOC: This isn't a DBWI. It would be one if it described something that actually happened.

(OOC: Sure it is. Gore presidency.)

How could he lose? The republicans suppoted the war and it's not like the war would have been difficult. Two weeks to Bagdad and it would have been over and I'm the pessimist around. Most people say one week.
 

hammo1j

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Gore ordered that the Invasion be carried out using Medieval Weapons ("Operation Crusader") since those Gas Guzzling Tanks would have caused tonnes of CO2 to be emitted into the atmosphere.

Since then the US Army has kept the peace in Baghdad using trained Polar Bears (displaced from their ice floe homes) to patrol no go areas.
 
(OOC: Sure it is. Gore presidency.)

OOC: No it isn't. A DB is when you're pretending to inhabit a ATL and asking about something that actually did happen. You're pretending to inhabit an ATL and asking about something that didn't happen. "Gore loses" is a DB because he did; "Gore invades Iraq" isn't because he didn't.

Gore ordered that the Invasion be carried out using Medieval Weapons ("Operation Crusader") since those Gas Guzzling Tanks would have caused tonnes of CO2 to be emitted into the atmosphere.

Since then the US Army has kept the peace in Baghdad using trained Polar Bears (displaced from their ice floe homes) to patrol no go areas.

OOC: Go back to your Straha cage, please.
 

Rockingham

Banned
OOC: No it isn't. A DB is when you're pretending to inhabit a ATL and asking about something that actually did happen. You're pretending to inhabit an ATL and asking about something that didn't happen. "Gore loses" is a DB because he did; "Gore invades Iraq" isn't because he didn't.



OOC: Go back to your Straha cage, please.
OOC: That would mean this is a TBWI then wouldn't it? The Straha comparison was a bit harsh;)
 
OOC: No it isn't. A DB is when you're pretending to inhabit a ATL and asking about something that actually did happen. You're pretending to inhabit an ATL and asking about something that didn't happen. "Gore loses" is a DB because he did; "Gore invades Iraq" isn't because he didn't.

OOC: Who are you? The Grand Nitpick Theologian of AH.
It´s about Gore winning in 2000 and losing in 2004. So the question is, if he would still lose, if he invaded Iraq.
 

~The Doctor~

Gore ordered that the Invasion be carried out using Medieval Weapons ("Operation Crusader") since those Gas Guzzling Tanks would have caused tonnes of CO2 to be emitted into the atmosphere.

Since then the US Army has kept the peace in Baghdad using trained Polar Bears (displaced from their ice floe homes) to patrol no go areas.

Yeah, you can joke, but Gore's environmental policies were probably the best thing he did in office. Of course, the Republicans reversed it, and now they're paying for it in the polls. I'm on the Obama bandwagon!

OOC: Dr P, no one cares. Either contribute to the DB, or get out.
 
He would retract that order, which would have been conditional in any case. Gore can close to an open war, just as Clinton had done, but he was looking for answers, not for a fight.

When Saddam finally tipped his hand to the CIA during another buildup in Saudi Arabia, Gore called off the attack.

The War never left the planning stages...
 
Yeah, you can joke, but Gore's environmental policies were probably the best thing he did in office. Of course, the Republicans reversed it, and now they're paying for it in the polls. I'm on the Obama bandwagon!

OOC: Dr P, no one cares. Either contribute to the DB, or get out.

Okay, McCain approval ratings ar now by 45% and Gallup has a tie McCain/Obama by 48%/48%. But can the Democrats really recover so fast, after the last two election desasters. I mean 2006 even Hillary Clinton didn´t get reelected.
 
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