How would 9/11 and the War on Terror been handled if a Democrat Pres. and/or Congress had been in power?

Question

I'm interested in starting a discussion as to how things would have been different if, say, Al Gore or another Democrat had won the 2000 election. Would the follow-up to 9/11 been the same? I'd prefer intelligent answers please, no 'they would screw it up' or 'Bush screwed it up' etc.

Answer 1

They would probably still be trying to figure out what to do. Seriously though, there probably wouldn't be that much difference, most of the intelligence the Bush administration had was gathered during the Clinton administration. I think Gore would've vacillated on Iraq initially, but ultimately he probably would've taken a similar course of action. Several high profile democrats were for the war in Iraq (Hillary!). Except he would've let the UN option run it's course toward futility, so he might have gained some additional world support. But then again, you have to remember that countries like France, Germany and Russia still want to be players on the world stage, so they probably would've been difficult to deal with no matter what.

Ultimately, I think the result would've been very similar, regardless of what people say.

Answer 2

Well...you have to keep in mind that the 2000 election was rigged so that Bush would win because Bush becoming president and 9/11 are all part of the same Global Agenda. George HW Bush and Dick Cheney were both involved in the planning of the 9/11 operation. 9/11 was totally an inside job except for the fact that they needed help carrying out the job. This is where Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda come in; they were the unknowing scapegoats in the operation. The main reason the "attacks" took place was so the Neo-Cons running the show in the States could get the Patriot Act passed. They needed to get the Patriot Act passed and get all those domestic wiretaps and surveillence up and running in order to keep tabs on all the domestic dissenters within the United States. This keeps a leash on the protesters, since, under the Patriot Act, protesters are considered terrorists and are just as prone to being locked up in Gitmo as any member of, say, Al Qaeda. Now that the Neo-Cons had a lockdown on the United States via the gradual reduction of civil rights, liberties and free speech, they could get down to their real agenda, to wit, stealing all the Middle Eastern oil. 9/11 was orchestrated by the so-called American military/industrial complex...the prime movers of which are prominent in the Bush Jr administration. So a Democrat being in power is irrelevant. It wasn't meant to happen in the first place, and that applies to 2004 as well as 2000. The difference between Al Gore and John Kerry is that Kerry is himself a Global Agenda insider who knows his place. Gore is not. That's the difference. This is why we will most likely see Hillary Clinton win the 2008 election; she too is a Global insider. Some say even more so than her husband, the former president.

Answer 3

I think we would have gone after Osama in one way or another but the war in Iraq would not have happened and maybe 2500 lives would not have been lost on our side and 10's of thousand Iraqi would have been alive today. Who knows, Al Gore might have been paying more attention and 9/11 would have never happened. This is all just a guess as many of the other answers will be. We will never know for sure because the election was stolen.

Answer 4

I honestly believe that we would have actually gone after the person responsible-Osama bin Laden. Instead, 9/11 was used for political gain and also as an excuse to invade Iraq. Its amazing how Bush can claim there was a clear link between Al Qaeda and Hussein, yet in the next sentence proclaim "That guy (Hussein) tried to kill my dad." Clearly proof of a personal agenda, seeing as how we have yet to be shown proof of that link. Isn't it ironic that we found Hussein but not bin Laden?

I do however, believe 100% that 9/11 would have still happened no matter who was in the Oval Office. The fire has been burning for a long time. We just need to elect someone who will extinguish it.

Answer 5

The whole thing wouldn’t have happened if Al was at the office. Top military leaders had planned the 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Lots of people believed that a cave man such as Bin laden has the capabilities to plan an attack on the most powerful country in the world… that’s strange because the Russians couldn’t do it but a cave man with the help of bunch of guys were able to succeed. Here is a question: what exactly is in Iraq?
A-Osama Bin Laden
B-Weapons Of Mass Destructions
C-Oil

Here is something for you to read by ABC News :
"U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba
N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001 In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.”

Continue here :http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1

you should take a look at these sites:
http://www.stopthelie.com/911.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc7.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/011904wtc7.html
http://www.total911.info/
http://www.infowars.com/

Answer 6

I am not going to answer this with a long answer as I just got done answering one that took an hour.

Perhaps we might of stopped 9/11 rather than ignore it.

We might have accepted the UN inspectors conclusion, Instead we found them to be correct after we later verified on the ground and by 2 studies, that there were no WMD's. Clinton had assaulted most of their military targets with air strikes and cruise missiles. We did not lose 1 person.

We might have gone after Asama bin Laden instead of oil!

Bush was well on his way to war before 9/11 because of the loss of 3 major oil contracts by big oil. I would have hoped we would not have done the same, and I sure and hell hope we wouldn't start a war for the oil companies.

I would not have bypassed the UN just because we knew we were going to get vetoed and start a war by attacking, without provocation, a sovereign nation in violation of world law..

Any idiot could have expected what happened in Iraq after we got there. Bush's father talked to the military on this very issue, and guess what. He was right!

The staff would have been totally different. As would the intellect of the 2 who are there now!.

We would have a balanced budget and we wouldn't have given 2 tax cuts to the rich!

Answer 7

I'd like to think that the war in Iraq would have never happened, as it had NOTHING to do with the events of 9/11.

Answer 8

I am convinced that 9/11 would not have happened if another Prez had been in office. I think they were even more ticked off by Bush's lack of diplomacy, and this fueled the fire already raging in these sick people's minds.

Answer 9

9/11 wouldn't have happened. Islamics would hate america less and there would be a lower threat of terrorism. Therefore there would not have to be such a big war on terrorism

Answer 10

First off Gore would have read the PDB. Second after reading the PDB he wouldn't have gone on vacation for 2 months. 3rd We will never know because Bush stole the election.