[GrandMoM]

Personally, I belive GORE would have PI$$ED HIS PANTS the minute he heard about the first plane.

Let's hear what YOU think FReepers!

[reagan_fanatic]

We would still be negotiating with the Taliban government in Kabul...

[Allegra]

Well, for one thing, we'd probably be under martial law now.

[rvoitier]

GORE! would be the one in the hidden undisclosed location.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

I try not to think about it it is too scary the thought of kofi annans blue troops massing at the afghan border demanding that the international coalition be allowed in to arrest al-queida so we can take them to the hague then on the homefront president gore raises taxes on the rich so the un can redistribute our wealth so the "poverty stricken nations wont hate us"
see now you made me think about it and I have no choice to open a new bottle of grey goose to soothe my nerves thanks alot

[mystery-ak]

I know one thing for certain....he would not have the respect of the US military.

[4TheFlag]

Before the bombing began, an Environmental Impact Study would have had to been done....

[4TheFlag]

And before that, he would have called the taliban and al-queda, and APLOGIZED for our buildings being in the way.....

[PMCarey]

Gore would've fired a few cruise missiles into an empty Afghan tent and hit some camel in the butt.

[powderhorn]

Presidents don't really create the strategy for fighting wars. That's something the Generals do. Most of the same people that Bush relys on would have been in place for Gore to rely on.

The biggest difference would be that Gore would have a different speech writer.

[Jethro Tull]

As much as I loath the man, I don't think he would have initially responded much differently.

Unlike Bush, however, he would have by now declared victory and never consided pursuing terrorism on a global level.

He would have been knee deep in domestic spending sometime around December 1st....

[LibKill]

Gore would have sent the Army out.

Out into America to confiscate all weapons of any type from the citizens of America.

Then he would have puckered up and kissed Osama's backside.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

we would have national Id cards he would find some job for clinton to do who knows hillary might be our sec of state

[irish_lad]

We'd all be speaking Arabic or Farsi by now.

[Howlin]

[RnMomof7]

He would have dropped to his knees and accepted allah as his savior,and admitted we had brought this on ourselves..

Then he would have given the heathans anything they wanted,as long as they didn't cut down any trees or pollute the water

[TaxPayer2000]

He would have blamed it on the evil republicans trying to destroy his great economy

[John Jorsett]

Assuming that he'd have launched a campaign in Afghanistan in the first place ( a very big if), he'd almost certainly have paused it for Ramadan and possibly the entire Winter. (Remember the early pudit comments that "the brutal Afghan Winter" would be setting in, making military action impossible?) We'd probably still not have caused the fall of the Taliban by this time.

[finnman69]

The White House crater would be just about excavated by now and congressional hearings would be asking the question why were flights not grounded across the nation in time to prevent further attacks. The weekly Osama bin Laden press statements would be not helping the 40% Approval rating for President Gore as he attempted to try to get UN condemnation of the Taliban.

[ChadGore]

ie gore would have given the state of the union address with mad Mulla omar in the balcony.

[alloysteel]

Very badly.

In an observation attributed to the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, "God watches over fools, children, drunks and the United States." Only by the most improbable series of blunders and near-misses, has the US staggered out of the way of certain oblivion.

Nobody could have written a piece of fiction twenty-five years ago which would have accurately predicted recent history, and been regarded as a serious author at the time.