Invasion of iraq in the 70s by Nixon

In this thread i wanted to make an ah scenario where nixon orders an invasion of iraq in the 70s before watergate. The reasoning why we invade. Lets sat iranian nationalist pop up in iraq instead of iran and earlier too. Iraqi nationalist launch a suicide attack on the capital building, wtc, and empire state building. Or lets say Nixon gets oil companies backing in the presidential election and wants to repay the favor. Would we withdraw from Vietnam? Would there be a draft for the invasion of iraq?
 
No plans for that, as Iraq was a Soviet and Chinese client.

So this would be seen as Casus Belli to start WWIII

KGB knows this, and would have whacked those guys before they could have taken over Iraq, let alone get to the USA

Nobody wanted WWIII in the '70s
 
In this thread i wanted to make an ah scenario where nixon orders an invasion of iraq in the 70s before watergate. The reasoning why we invade. Lets sat iranian nationalist pop up in iraq instead of iran and earlier too. Iraqi nationalist launch a suicide attack on the capital building, wtc, and empire state building. Or lets say Nixon gets oil companies backing in the presidential election and wants to repay the favor. Would we withdraw from Vietnam? Would there be a draft for the invasion of iraq?

What? Iraq was already ruled by nationalists - do you want an even more nationalist government than the Arab Socialist Baath Party?

Or do you mean islamists? Sunnite or Shiite islamists?
 
Shiite islamist

They'd be Extremely Unlikely to consider terror attacks in the US in the '70s. Also, a Shiite Islamist takeover at the time would probably cause civil war in Iraq and possibly breakup of the country, with the Kurdish region likely to go its own way (violently) and a massive Arab Sunni insurgency (which has been the case IOTL when the Shiite community became politically dominant). Also, many Shiites were not Islamists at that point (many are not now for that matter) and would dislike the new regime.
 
In this thread i wanted to make an ah scenario where nixon orders an invasion of iraq in the 70s before watergate. The reasoning why we invade. Lets sat iranian nationalist pop up in iraq instead of iran and earlier too. Iraqi nationalist launch a suicide attack on the capital building, wtc, and empire state building. Or lets say Nixon gets oil companies backing in the presidential election and wants to repay the favor. Would we withdraw from Vietnam? Would there be a draft for the invasion of iraq?
Would the Lybians be included, too ?
 
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