So, what if 9/11 never happened?

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New York Magazine is asking the question.

It's a long read, but lots of folks (Freidman, Andrew Sullivan, other) weigh in.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

obivously, if we hadn't invaded Iraq yet, Ned would have a lot more time on his hands.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

but I'm not at all convinced that Kerry would have won in 2004.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Freidman posits that our relationship in China would have been turned into a full-blown Cold War by Bushco.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really curious as to what the economy would have been like over the past five years without the impact of 9/11.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

but I'm not at all convinced that Kerry would have won in 2004

a Dem would have won, but it wouldn't have been Kerry

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

obivously, if we hadn't invaded Iraq yet, Ned would have a lot more time on his hands.

But I'd still be here of course. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

9/11 didn't happen. It was all done with mirrors. Possibly by Mossad.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

why do you think a Dem would have won?

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Bush would have stayed incredibly unpopular in the polls...

Oh wait.

― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Demolition firms would never have thought of inventing that cheap new method of turning buildings into powder with kerosene...

― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Toby Keith would be beggin' for booze money by about now.

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

and I guess the Dixie Chicks wouldn't be cancelling tourstops, either.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

it's hard to say if bush could've gotten in again just because public perception of him changed so fast after 9/11 - a year into clinton's first term how many ppl honestly expected him to get re-elected? it's entirely possible he would've gone after saddam anyway, he just would've had a much harder time rallying support for an ongoing occupation.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

pretentious architects would not be able to afford fancy eyewear

― mentalismé (sanskrit), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

September 11, 2006: Sitting at his usual table at Windows on the World, former mayor Rudolph Giuliani dines alone, unnoticed.

http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/neverhappened060814_4_560.jpg

― mentalismé (sanskrit), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

This thread wouldn't exist.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

This would have been taken on 9/12:

http://i.pbase.com/u20/scratch/upload/13181152.immortal.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

the republicans would have to shield themselves behind some other bullshit issue. violence in videogames or something.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

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