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United Airlines Flight 93 was a flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on 9/11, as part of the 9/11 attacks. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a federal government building in the national capital of Washington, D.C. The mission became a partial failure when the...

Bush vs. The Axis of Evil 'It's Too Quiet' Excerpt from Christopher Hitchens in the debate ‘Was the War on Terror Unavoidable?’ “The dawn of the twenty-first century promised the dawn of a new era. Colonialism, Fascism and Stalinism had all had their intellectual and moral foundations...

The first big change in this scenario is that instead of picking Quayle as his running mate, Bush picks Jack Kemp instead. He was one of the finalists for the VP pick along with Bob and Elizabeth Dole, and it will bolster his credentials when he runs in 1996. It also gives Bush more credibility...

The first POD is that George H. W. Bush narrowly wins the 1964 Texas Senatorial Election, meaning he is larger figure on the national stage and a small contender for the nomination in 1968. The second POD is that Reagan wins the Republican nomination in 1968 after Nixon fails to win the first...

This topic has gotten some attention on the boards, but most of the comments were along the lines of "People trust government more" and called it a day. I'm hoping to begin a more earnest discussion based on a few central questions. Point of Divergence: IOTL, the Watergate burglary was foiled...

In 2005, while he was giving a speech in Tblisi, Georgia, US President George W Bush suffered an attempt on his life. Vladimir Arutyunian, an ethnic Armenian, threw a grenade at the podium, hoping to kill both Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. The grenade failed to detonate...

As the title says, what happens if John Kerry won 2004? Nothing else in the election changes other than Kerry gets more votes in Ohio to beat out Bush. Say maybe it’s a reverse of 2000 where instead of Florida being very narrowly won by Bush in 2000, in 2004 Ohio is very narrowly won by Kerry...

Geronimo Part I August 20th, 1998. Approximately 3:30 p.m. GMT[1]. Following orders given by President Bill Clinton, the United States undertook a controversial act. In what the President justified as a pre-emptive strike against terrorism. 70 cruise missiles were fired into Afghanistan...

As said in George H W Bush Wikipedia: By the early 1960s, Bush was widely regarded as an appealing political candidate, and some leading Democrats attempted to convince Bush to become a Democrat. He declined to leave the Republican Party, later citing his belief that the national Democratic...

Threads on this topic that I found seemed to have fizzled. Let’s say that through some combination of not appointing Volcker and no Iranian hostage crisis, Carter wins re-election. Who are the likely Republican contenders in 84? I’m most interested in if we think Ford gets into the mix. Bush...

Let's say Gary Hart wins the 1984 Democratic nomination. Who does he choose as a running mate? Women's groups will still threaten to walk unless a woman is named to the ticket. Mondale's top two choices were Gerry Ferraro and Dianne Feinstein. Would Hart agree to select a woman and put her on...

As the title says, what if 9/11 happened 3 years later and happened either exactly on September 11th in 2004, or some other time in 2004 before the election. Let's assume this 9/11 goes very similarly to OTL's 9/11. How is the election affected? How does culture change? How are those 3 years...

"I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university like Kinnock? Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were...

How can I remember the late 00s and the early 10s? Well many the presidency of one of the most unlikely presidental victories. A man who was running for a party that had one of the most unpopular presidents in recent history on his side and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression...

According to Nukemap blast would be enough to obliterate Wall Street, the rest of the Financial District, and the NY Fed too, and it would even cause mild damage to buildings as far away as the Empire State Building and Madison Square Garden. It would be too high for any fallout, but the short...

POD: The hijackers die in a car crash. September 11, 2001: Comes and goes like any other day. November 12, 2001: The nation is shocked by the deadliest aviation disaster since 1979 when American flight 587 crashes in New York killing 265 people and one dog. December 2, 2001: Enron files for...

I know that Ross Perot was different candidate compared to Clinton or Bush in '92 election and his voters were most likely to vote for Clinton as they were to Bush. But what is most realistic way can we have H.W. Bush replacing Dan Quayle with Ross Perot as V.P. around May-June 1992 when Perot...

I read that, during the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein deployed about 100,000 troops for the initial invasion of Kuwait and an additional 600,000 troops in the following weeks/months (about 700,000 troops in total!). It seems like that would have made Iraq the fourth strongest military in the world...

So with consultation from @Arthur Marston, I thought it would be interesting to do a visual photo thread for the dystopian scenario of No W written by @Lost Freeway (who unfortunately was banned in September 2017) similar to the photo threads for World War Z, 1983: Doomsday, Fatherland, and Man...

How would the Spanish Ambassador under the Mccain administrator, George W. Bush handle America as the President or would he win the elections if he is the nominee in the year 2000 instead of Mccain?