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This has probably been done before, but I want to really try to isolate the effects.

The POD is that everything happens IOTL up until 2003, except to everyone's surprise, Bush was trying to pressure Hussein into letting the inspectors back after all. No invasion.

There was a buildup of military forces in Kuwait in Jan-Feb 2003 that really couldn't be sustained there for a long period of time, so a partial withdrawal happens, very quietly.

An alternate or supplementary POD is that they really want to do the northern attack from Turkey after all, but realize that this is not going to happen and more work is needed to get Turkish approval.
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