Geeez, we're so lucky the supreme court didn't appoint Al Gore back in 2000.

[Cyrano]

Just think of what might have happened.

Iraq would still be under the thumb of a cruel dictator.

Oil company profits would be counted in numbers that most people could actually read.

The American Constitution might still exist.

Countless people would never have learned how good life was after being tortured.

No one would have ever heard of Halliburton.

Three thousand plus American soldiers would still be alive.

Well, you get the idea. But I'd like to hear what you think would have been different if we didn't have King George in power.

[SharonRB]

1. Federal funds would be used for stem cell research.

Valerie Plame would still be undercover.

Countless people in New Orleans and elsewhere in the Gulf Coast would have housing and there would be a big rebuilding effort going on.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Jan. 2001, our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.

[Turbineguy]

3. And those

two buildings in New York were becoming a bit long in the tooth.

No, on balance we should thank George W Bush and his crowd.

[tridim]

4. We'd have an entirely new industry dedicated to solving Earth's energy problems,

and climate change. Thousands of new, high-paying jobs would come with it, and we would now be the world leader in the effort.

Just one of the many good things that could have been had the SCOTUS not selected the worst person in the world to become President.

[jobycom]

6. I don't know, would we really call Bush the worst person in the world for the job?

Wait, yes, we would. Sorry.

[jobycom]

5. People in New Orleans would be complaining about how badly

the new construction was inflating their economy, and might even be questioning if Gore was right to have the National Guard in place the evening before Katrina came in shore.

People in New York would feel less sympathy for New Orleans, because they would not understand what it was like to suffer a cataclysmic disaster costing thousands of lives.

New Orleans would mourn the loss of hundreds of, rather than over a thousand, lives.

$1.20 would be outrageous for a gallon of gas. Not that all those new hybrids would really worry much about gas.

Republicans would be complaining that Hussein should have been imprisoned, rather than simply negotiated into exile, when Gore forced Iraq to reform into a more Democratic form of government. Republicans would also observe that sense it was done so peacefully, it was probably going to happen anyway, and it probably had more to do with Reagan's work in the Middle East than with anything Gore did.

Nobody would be able to spell Al Qeada/Al Quida/however-the-heck-it's-spelled.

[skipos]

7. Which is why I get irritated that anyone ever thought Gore=Bush

E: You said during your campaign that it didn't really matter if Al Gore or George W. Bush won the election.
Nader: That's right.
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?696

[LiberalEsto]

8. Federal budget surplus

might still exist

[Bake]

9. Two less wingnuts on SCOTUS - Roberts and (sc)Alito

No domestic spying without warrants.

No Gitmo.

No Abu Ghraib.

Over 3,000 Americans NOT killed in Iraq. 3,000 Americans NOT lost on 9/11.

Yeah, it would have made a difference

Bake

[Parche]

10. GORE

The CIA would never have launched operation "Sept 11th 2001"

We would have had no 'Cheney energy file' to deal with

Oil prices would be lower

Would Ken Lay still be alive (Or is he in the Cayman Islands) Enron who??


We would have never known who Valerie Plame was.........

Karl Rover would still be a nifnod

'Scooter Libby who?

Guantanamo would still be associated with the movie "A Few Good Men"

Abu Gayrab would be a town in Iraq

Nucular would still be 'production and decay of strange particles'

[baldguy]

11. And IF we had still been attacked on 9/11

(Since the most extensive anti-terrorist network in the world would not have been dismantled - but there's still a small chance that it may not have been able to prevent it.)

- We'd have ALLIES in the fight against al Qaeda

- Bin Laden would have been caught by now.

- Afghanistan would be an island of stability in central Asia.

- Israel and Palestine would have a peace agreement

- The major international oil conglomerates would still be profitable, but they wouldn't be netting more than the GDP of most small and medium sized nations. (boo hoo)