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  1. sillygoose

    Two Iraq-Syria early 21st century alternate history questions

    Refused the air support for the invasion that the CIA demanded. Lots of plausible theories there. And that he said he was going to disband the CIA when he got back from Texas. Also he fired Dulles and Dulles apparently made several several threatening statements in private. I think the...
  2. sillygoose

    Two Iraq-Syria early 21st century alternate history questions

    Well he half assed it. And when he tried to go against the foreign policy establishment he got his brains blown out. Trump just got his character assassinated. 1990s vs. 2000s is a different situation. Pre and post economic trouble.
  3. sillygoose

    Two Iraq-Syria early 21st century alternate history questions

    Bay of Pigs. He fell for it too. Look what happened to him though when he tried to act independently though. 1998 bombing to distract from the Lewinsky scandal. Kosovo is one thing, needing 450,000 men for an invasion and occupation of Iraq for years is an entirely different thing. Bush...
  4. sillygoose

    Two Iraq-Syria early 21st century alternate history questions

    Oh buddy, no. Presidents get manipulated too. By international treaty he really couldn't. I'm not sure about the Hussein issue while Clinton was prez. Gore was kind of a non-entity from what I recall.
  5. sillygoose

    Two Iraq-Syria early 21st century alternate history questions

    In 2004, but it looks like google won't show it when I search. So I had to go back to Clinton's 2008 gaff when he talked about it: https://gothamist.com/news/bill-clinton-explains-obama-fairy-tale-with-sharpton The link is broken BTW. Seems like they really tried to scrub the remark from the...
  6. sillygoose

    Two Iraq-Syria early 21st century alternate history questions

    Yes. Wasn't that what you meant? He was out of government and could make an outsider's campaign against it like Obama did. Obama later said had he had access to the intel given to congress at the time he would have voted for the war. His makes the case that Gore in power would have invaded...
  7. sillygoose

    Two Iraq-Syria early 21st century alternate history questions

    Given her statements at the time and currently vis-a-vis Russia she would have invaded on the pretext of the supposed gas attacks. In fact we'd probably have had a shit-ton more wars because of her. Gore said he would likely have invaded Iraq anyway, so likely a lot would play out similarly...
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