The Decade Gone By: A Collaborative TL

Smart running mate choice for McCain, he needed some street cred with the Religious Right. Robb is also a great ticket balancer for Wellstone. Nice job!

Edit: I just read more of the timeline. It has gone in a weird direction.
 
January 17, 2001: Philippine President Joseph Estrada impeached on corruption charges, Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is sworn into office at noon Manila time.

November 30, 2001: Presidents Wellstone and Arroyo sign the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement.

May 17, 2001: Australian Prime Minister John Howard's Liberals returned for a third term with 78 of 122 House seats.

September 1, 2001: British general election. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party wins a second-term landslide of 414 of 650 seats in the Commons, up 1 from 1997 on the back of a massive sympathy vote for assassinated former PM Tony Blair and a rapidly growing economy.
 
Here is an updated full version of the TL...


*2000*


January 1st,2000- All over the world, people welcome in a new decade, a new century, and a new millenium. Despite fears of Y2K, little major came from it. President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton gives a speech from Washington, in which he says that he hopes America will keep on being a "Leader for the World in the coming century."

January 3rd,2000- Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone stuns many, when he announces he will be running for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States, despite the fact that the Iowa caucus is less than a month away. Senator Wellstone soon begins barnstorming in Iowa.

January 10th,2000- Polls indicate the Texas Governor Geogre W. Bush is a likely winner for the Iowa caucus for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

January 19th, 2000: Prime Minister Tony Blair is brutally injured by a failed assassination attempt. He recovers by early March.

January 24, 2000 - Governor Bush wins the Iowa primary

February 1st, 2000 - Senator McCain narrowly defeats George Bush in the New Hampshire Primary

February 2nd, 2000 - Al Gore dies in a helicopter crash. Senator Wellstone emerges as the Democratic frontrunner, leading the polls in a hypothetical Bush-Wellstone matchup.


February 8th 2000: President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe gets stroke and dies five days later.

February 11, 2000: Karl Rove is killed in a car accident with a drunk driver.

February 26th 2000: Zimbabwe is chaos when parliament can't choice succesor for deceased Mugabe.

Febuary 29th, 2000: – The Dow Jones closes at 12,002.23

March 7, 2000: Super Tuesday. John McCain clinches victory with 1038 delegates for McCain.

March 8, 2000: Elizabeth Dole is approached as a possible VP candidate


March 3rd, 2000- US President Bill Clinton names Former Virginia Governor L. Douglas "Doug" Wilder to succeed the late Al Gore as Vice-President. Wilder is approved by congress, and is sworn in as the first African-American Vice-President.
 
May 3rd 2000: Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan hang by Turkish officials.

July 31st, 2000: Senator John McCain announces that Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri will be his Vice Presidential Nominee. This is confirmed by the convention nearly unanimously.

August 17th, 2000: Senator Paul Wellstone accepts the nomination, and nominates Senator Chuck Robb of Virginia has his running mate.

August 27,2000 – The Ostankino Tower collapses in Moscow.

September 16, 2000-Ralph Nader drops out of the race and endorses Wellstone saying that he believes that Wellstone has listened to his platform enough to make him no longer feel the need to run.

October 27th 2000: President Vladimir Putin assassinate by Islamic terrorists.

October 28th 2000: Prime Minister Mihail Kasyanov become president of Russia.

October 29, 2000: John McCain proves himself a maverick... In last minute campaign stop, he calls Falwell and his evangelicals, dangerous for America, and "Agents of intolerance and hate" He vows that in the White House he won't pander to their interests. The speech is polarizing among the Republicans. One, he captured many independent voters 5 days before the election, and effectively put the foreign contribution scandal behind him. Two, he has almost completely alienated the Christian Right. The RNC threatens to remove him from the ticket unless he apologizes. McCain refuses. With 7 days to go the RNC just has to sit it out and hope that the damage to the base won't be too bad...


November 8, 2000-Despite McCain's best efforts at salvaging his campaign, the damage done is enough to get voters to elect Paul Wellstone as the 43rd President of the United States, even if only by a somewhat slight electoral margin{he did win 60% of the popular vote, though}. This can effectively be blamed not only on the foreign contribution scandal, which is still fresh on the minds of many liberal and independent voters{although many conservatives and the mass media have totally put this behind them}, but also his failure to keep the Republican voters{evangelicals especially} happy.

November 11, 2000-McCain gets an hour's worth of airtime on FOX to do his impromptu speech..........he does congratulate Wellstone for the win, but spends about half that time complaining about 'illegal' immigration, 'welfare queens', etc.........which damages his reputation even more.

November 25, 2000-A car bomb set by Islamic extremists goes off near a crowded Moscow dining establishment killing over 50 people.

November 27,2000 – Jean Cretien is re-elected as Prime minister of Canada, as the Liberal Party increases its majority to 185 seats in the House of Commons.


*2001*


January 22nd 2001: Tony Blair is shot by a man with previous mental conditions who says that he did it because Blair was a murderer. He is quickly given life for killing the Prime Minister.


January 12th 2001: Interim president of Zimbabwe assassinate. Civil War of Zimbabwe gets worse.

January 16th 2001: President of Democratic Republic of Congo survives assassination attemp.

January 17, 2001: Philippine President Joseph Estrada impeached on corruption charges, Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is sworn into office at noon Manila time.

January 21th 2001: Democratic Republic of Congo blame Rwuanda and demands Rwanda extradite members of cospiracy. Rwanda doesn't extradite them.

January 26th 2001: Democratic Republic of Congo declares war for Rwanda.

January 27th 2001: UN declare Zimbabwe failed state.


January 23rd 2001: Leaders all over the globe mourn Blair's death with Wellstone saying 'Tony Blair's death is a dark day for all of the Western world.'

January 29, 2001-In his first State of the union address President Wellstone lays out his ambitious domestic agenda which includes Universal Health Care and a large-scale conversion of the American economy to be more green friendly. He is expected to face an uphill battle with the Republican controlled house.
 
February 7th 2001: Rwandan rebellions declare North and South Kivu indepent.

February 14th 2001: Army of DR of Congo fight against rebellions of Upper Katanga.

February 24, 2001: President Kasyanov of Russia chooses his cabinet, with Sergey Ivanov becoming Prime minister.

February 29th 2001: Riots in Kinshasa. President Kabila escapes from Congo.
 
April 1, 2001-President Wellstone sends former president Clinton on a peace mission to Israel.

May 17, 2001: Australian Prime Minister John Howard's Liberals returned for a third term with 78 of 122 House seats.

June 1st 2001: Crown Price of Nepal Dipendra shoot whole his family. No one survives. Country is soon at chaos becouse of death of king family.

August 18th 2001: The Maoist occupy capital of Nepal, Kathmandu and declare People's Republic of Nepal founded.


September 1, 2001: British general election. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party wins a second-term landslide of 414 of 650 seats in the Commons, up 1 from 1997 on the back of a massive sympathy vote for assassinated former PM Tony Blair and a rapidly growing economy.
 
September 11, 2001: Texas Legislature votes to impeach Governor George W. Bush over charges of lying in a sworn affidavit in a court case involving the wrongful firing of Texas Funeral Services Commission employee Eliza May. Democrats support the measure, Republicans are divided. Rumor has it that Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry is covertly backing Bush's impeachment.
 
November 30, 2001: Presidents Wellstone and Arroyo sign the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement.



*2002*


July 11th 2002: Morocco occupy Isla Perejil which belong for Spain.

July 14th 2002: Maxime Brunerie shoots president of France, Jacques Chirac and then himself.

July 15th 2002: Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes president of France.

July 16th 2002: Spain try take Isla Perejil back. Army of Morocco fire Spanish troops.

July 17th 2002: Government of Spain says that it is war with Morocco.

July 20th 2002: Spain stop attack of Morocco to Melilla and Ceuta.

July 26th 2002: War between Spain and Morocco ends and Spain gets Isla Prejil back.




I decided to leave out Jmill's last post because I think the rule is if enough people dislike it, it gets cut. Also guys, please stop killing off all the world leaders for no good reason. If somebody did have a near-death experience than it's fine, and I'll leave the death's that their are already, but from now on, if you want to kill-pff a world leader, you have to okay it with the rest of us.

Also, Only the years 2000 and 2001 are open at this point, but I'm leaving Lalli's post in for the future.

p.s. I'm glad you've joined us RogueBeaver. You're always so good at these things. :)
 
Nov. 5, 2002: Republicans retake control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections.

April 30, 2002: Stephen Harper is elected leader of the Canadian Alliance, defeating Stockwell Day to become Leader of the Opposition.

Dec. 1, 2002: Jean Chretien fires Paul Martin as Minister of Finance, thus setting off a Liberal civil war.
 
January 1, 2003, President Wellstone goes on a week-long state visit to Russia, meeting both President Kasyanov and Prime Minister Ivanov, as well as meeting the Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.
 
January 1, 2000: The holy door in St. Mary Major in Rome, Italy is opened by Pope John Paul II, triggering World Wide celebrations for the Great Jubilee.

February 18-26, 2000: Pope John Paul II takes a pastoral visit to Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Autonomous Territories.
 
September 13, 2001: at 9:15 AM 5 hijacked jetliners. United Flight 97, American Flights 411 and 292, Delta Flight 415, and JetBlue 42.

United Flight 97 hits the White House.

American Flight 411 hits the Empire State Building.

American Flight 292 clips the Statue of Liberty and crashes into the water. The torch and head now rest on the ground at Liberty Island.

Delta Flight 415 crashes into The TransAmerica Pyramid Building in San Francisco, sending the whole of the financial district into mayhem. The Pacific Stock Exchange is closed for 2 weeks.

JetBlue 42's intended target was the US Capitol building, but the passengers were able to retake control from the highjackers and land safely. Three highjackers were held and taken by the FBI upon landing at Baltimore International

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President Wellstone who was visiting the Pentagon at the time of the attack, is rushed to Offet Air Base in Omaha. The Press Corps is left behind. In the 9/13 Commission report, it is noted that the military shuttled President Wellstone to Omaha, and the Secret Service was nearly left behind.

Vice President Cobb was in his office at the time of the attack, and is declared dead along with the National Security Advisor, Sec of HUD, Sec of Education, and the Chief of Staff. President Wellstone's wife was also killed in the attack

September 13, 2001: President Wellstone addresses the nation from Omaha.

September 15, 2001: President Wellstone returns to DC

<How's this? A much different 9/11. Both coasts, WTC, Pentagon are still standing. Wellstone takes 2 days to get back to DC, before moving into Blair House>
 
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Nov. 5, 2002: Republicans retake control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections.

April 30, 2002: Stephen Harper is elected leader of the Canadian Alliance, defeating Stockwell Day to become Leader of the Opposition.

Dec. 1, 2002: Jean Chretien fires Paul Martin as Minister of Finance, thus setting off a Liberal civil war.

January 1, 2003, President Wellstone goes on a week-long state visit to Russia, meeting both President Kasyanov and Prime Minister Ivanov, as well as meeting the Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.

*sigh* why doesn't anyone ever listen to me?

Only the years 2000 and 2001 are open at this point
I really want to have the first two years rounded out until we go any further.
 
Here's an idea. March 5, 2002: on the 49th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death, the Kasyanov administration puts out a pole on how good or bad he was, as well as a proposal to re-bury Lenin.
 
September 18th 2001:
The US blames Al-Qaida for the attack on the US
October 15th 2001:
Start of the US/NATO attack on Afghanistan. The war called
"Operation Enduring Freedom" is going on untill the present day.

January 1st 2002:
The Netherlands,Belgium,Luxemburg,France and Germany are using one single currency. The Euro is born. The currencies of Austria,Finland and Ireland are pegged to the Euro and will join in "the fullness of time"
 
September 13, 2001: at 9:15 AM 5 hijacked jetliners. United Flight 97, American Flights 411 and 292, Delta Flight 415, and JetBlue 42.

United Flight 97 hits the White House.

American Flight 411 hits the Empire State Building.

American Flight 292 clips the Statue of Liberty and crashes into the water. The torch and head now rest on the ground at Liberty Island.

Delta Flight 415 crashes into The TransAmerica Pyramid Building in San Francisco, sending the whole of the financial district into mayhem. The Pacific Stock Exchange is closed for 2 weeks.

JetBlue 42's intended target was the US Capitol building, but the passengers were able to retake control from the highjackers and land safely. Three highjackers were held and taken by the FBI upon landing at Baltimore International

Deusex2.jpg


President Wellstone who was visiting the Pentagon at the time of the attack, is rushed to Offet Air Base in Omaha. The Press Corps is left behind. In the 9/13 Commission report, it is noted that the military shuttled President Wellstone to Omaha, and the Secret Service was nearly left behind.

Vice President Cobb was in his office at the time of the attack, and is declared dead along with the National Security Advisor, Sec of HUD, Sec of Education, and the Chief of Staff. President Wellstone's wife was also killed in the attack

September 13, 2001: President Wellstone addresses the nation from Omaha.

September 15, 2001: President Wellstone returns to DC

<How's this? A much different 9/11. Both coasts, WTC, Pentagon are still standing. Wellstone takes 2 days to get back to DC, before moving into Blair House>

That's probably a lot more realistic, IMO.{Let's just hope enough of our fellow AHers approve.}

September 18th 2001:
The US blames Al-Qaida for the attack on the US
October 15th 2001:
Start of the US/NATO attack on Afghanistan. The war called
"Operation Enduring Freedom" is going on untill the present day.

January 1st 2002:
The Netherlands,Belgium,Luxemburg,France and Germany are using one single currency. The Euro is born. The currencies of Austria,Finland and Ireland are pegged to the Euro and will join in "the fullness of time"

What about this?

July 25, 2001: Major blackout in the Canadian Far West: Most of British Columbia, the Yukon, and parts of Alberta are without power for 4-5 days at least, following a failure of a pair of power plants in B.C.

October 13, 2001: A massive car bomb destroys an apartment building in Liverpool{UK}: 200 people are murdered, and radical Islamists are initially blamed for the attack.

January 26, 2002: A mysterious sniper kills 9 random people in the town of Wollongong, N.S.W.; mass anxiety occurs in the state for some time, for fear of more.
 
November 7th,2000-Hillary Clinton, wife of President Bill Clinton wins her election to replace Daniel P. Monyihan as Senator for New York, after defeating her Republican opponent Rick Lazio.

January 3rd, 2001-Hillary Clinton is sworn in as Junior Senator from New York. When later asked in a interview if she would ever consider running for President, she curiously replies, "I'll have to think about that."


I'm okay with 9/13, as it seems more realisitic and interesting, but I'm curious to see what other people think. Also, 2002 is not open yet.
 
September 25th, 2001: The band Tenacious D, consisting of Jack Black and Kyle Gass, releases a self-titled album, that includes Dave Grohl on drums. Grohl goes on to tour with the band for the rest of the year.

November 17th, 2001: As the Foo Fighters convene in Los Angeles to begin work on their fourth album, Warren Fitzgerald is brought on as the lead guitarist for the album. Fitzgerald is acquainted with them because he is the touring guitarist for Tenacious D.
 
I specifically made it for two reasons. One a slightly worse 9/11. The WTC survival, and both coasts affected by it. I flipped a coin on whether it would be Golden Gate or TransAmerica.

Conspiracy theorywise in this timeline will be interesting especially since it took Wellstone 48 hours to get back to DC, nearly lost his security detail due to a military snafu, and the press corps left behind.

Compare that to Bush who was back in DC the same day, Air Force One shuttled some of the Press Corps all the way to Omaha, and was in a school when it happened. In this TL we don't have the shot of Wellstone in a classroom, we just have a report that the military moved him to Omaha, and that the VP is dead. With Wellstone himself only reappearing in the public eye 2 days later.

I am glad so many people seem to like it. I am curious to see who people declare is reponsible, since I left out any mention of Al-Qaeda, someone else can do that investigation.

>>>>>

Also who is going to be the VP now? The Republicans have the majority in Congress. It could turn into an outright partisan fight
 
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