The way it SHOULD have been...
March 1999
Vice President Albert Gore ascends to the Presidency of the United States of America after the impeachment and conviction of William Clinton for various offenses deemed to be high crimes and misdemeanors by both houses of the US Congress and the majority of the US population after being told the truth by the media in a timely fashion instead of after the fact.
Gores first order of business is to nail Saddam Husseins ### to the wall. As there is no hysterical left when a democrat is in the White House plus a clear majority of support by US citizens, demi nations like France along with the UN see clear US leadership, join the call and Hussien does as he has committed to do and disarms.
In the process, several small fish, including a little known Saudi ex-patriot named Osama Bin Laden, are scooped up and brought to justice in the United States for the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, the bombing of two US embassies in the summer of 1998 and the attack on the USS Cole in the summer of 2000.
Along the way, President Gore cracks down on the climate of corporate fraud that was promoted under President Clinton's permissive style of "anything goes" knowing that pure fraud, having been there while it was hatched, is at the root of the hyper heated Wall Street bubble. To ease concerns as the economy settles into a more rational pattern, Gore institutes a JFK-esque series of tax cuts that successfully balance the markets and the economy.
After dinner, Gore rescinded the asinine appeasement program of building nuclear capabilities in North Korea that Clinton had instituted in the never ending stream of buying people off instead of expecting and demanding that they behave. North Korea begins the slow process of becoming one of the civilized nations of the world when Kil Il Jr. suddenly and mysteriously defects to China.
In the fall of 2000, Senator John McCain gets smoked in the Presidential race. The relatively unknown George W. Bush stays that way having never entered saying, "Why bother? The man is doing the job his father always expected him to do."
September 11, 2001 is marked as was one the loveliest days anyone in New York can remember. 3,000 people working in and around the World Trade Center couldn't agree more. 250 Firefighters third the motion and can't wait to get the kids to little league after their shift ends.
Instead, we have Gore basically in exile and the left still remarking how nice Emperor Clintons new wardrobe looks, all the while blaming the weather, their fate and George W Bush on everybody and everything but…themselves.