tempestn 3 days ago

If Gore had won, maybe McCain could have been President after him, and the Republican party could've gone in a very different direction too.

If you enjoy these kinds of hypotheticals, check out the series For All Mankind on apple tv.

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rkomorn 3 days ago

Are you implying Gore winning would've meant 9/11 wouldn't have happened?

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  • tempestn 3 days ago

    Not the parent, and I'm not saying it definitely wouldn't have happened (I have no idea), but it's at least possible. There was advance intelligence around the event that might have been treated differently by a different administration.

    Even if it had happened, the response would also have been different.

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    • mixmastamyk 3 days ago

      In Richard Clarke’s book he details the intelligence community’s multiple warnings to the new Bush administration that spring and summer. They were ignored.

      As Gore came from the Clinton admin he and the people around him would have had a lot more experience dealing with and familiar with the threats and actors, who were already known.

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    • chistev 3 days ago

      What do you think the different response would have been?

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      • tempestn 3 days ago

        I have no idea; I'm just saying that with different people in charge, they wouldn't have reacted in exactly the same way.

        If I had to guess, I'd say at least no Iraq war, if we consider that part of the response. Patriot Act probably would have looked different. I expect there still would have been military action in Afghanistan, but likely with differences as well.

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squidbeak 3 days ago

Are you asserting that Al Qaeda liked Gore enough to suspend their vendetta?

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  • natebc 3 days ago

    They're asserting that they want to live in a world where two things are true.

    - Gore was declared winner of the 2000 presidential election

    - the WTC wasn't attacked on September 11th, 2001.

    the two don't have to be connected to be wishes.

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  • netsharc 3 days ago

    Bush's team ignored Clinton's team attempt to handover what they knew about the threats (in these threads someone mentioned Richard Clarke's book, I remember reading a 2003 TIME article, you can probably also read the results of the congressional investigation).

    If the Supreme Court hadn't done the shenanigans in Florida, Clinton's team would've been Gore's team, and who knows, maybe those hijackers would've been caught...

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