US politics if Gore invades Iraq and Afghanistan

Ok. Bill clinton invading Iraq/Afghanistan in 1999 came close to happening, has the same effects and actually could have happened.

In that one, there'd be no 10-15 years of boosted GOP hawkishness since Iraq/Afghanistan would be a "democratic war" and not "their" war. Expect the GOP to start evolving on foreign policy more like it's post-2017 self but earlier and much slower, given more overall hawkishness.

Democrats? Even more hawkish than OTL, again think OTL post-2016 trends but earlier. Expect Obama to get enough swing votes to slip by in 2012 by moving the US embassy to jerusalem. More of a foreign policy empathisis on "spreading democracy", "free trade".

9/11 averted, plus it being the dems invading 2-4(Somalia? Yemen?) muslim countries and doing things like moving the US embassy in Israel to jerusalem means muslims would be a GOP-leaning group. Jewish voters? Probably only as dem as OTL with antiwar ones voting third party/a few voting GOP.
 
Gore invading Iraq without the UN/NATO/UK/France/Germany is ASB. If Gore does invade Iraq, it's to help the UN/NATO/UK/France/Germany.
 
Gore would invade Iraq but have NATO/UN on board, doing it for "spreading democracy", something unfalsifiable unlike OTL's falsifiable WMD claims.
 

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No, I'm saying the party establishment most likely attempted to, did the math and realized it'd fail hence giving up after only a few weeks. tbf, it may not have been the numbers that made them decide to give up but Gore's generally being an unlikeable person plus picking fucking Joe "Censorship is cool" Lieberman as VP. We probably won't ever find out one way or another.
Oh, FFS!

You've been here for a year and a half. You should know that this sort of half-assed conspiracy mongering isn't permitted here.

Kicked for a week.

Strongly recommend you don't drag anything like this out of the closet when you return.
 
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