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The 2000s under President Joe Lieberman

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So how would you expect Joe Lieberman being President during the 2000s to play out? How might his domestic and foreign policy (especially the War on Terror of course) likely differ from the OTL Bush Administration and what are their long-term impacts?

Suppose Gore narrowly wins instead of Bush, only for him to be assassinated by some right wing militia fanatic nut paranoid the government is out to take his guns a month before taking office. Let's also assume that 9/11 still happens on schedule and plays out mostly the same.

...It occurs to me that one thing that's almost certainly going to be WAY worse than OTL is trutherist conspiracism, considering Lieberman's jewish and the previous Gore assassination. Oh dear...
 
He will invade Iraq on schedule, he supported it IOTL (Lieberman was hawkish in foreign policy but relatively lax in domestic policy) but it will be a radically different invasion, there won't be Donald Rumsfeld running the invasion on a shoestring and Paul Bremer with his "De-Baathization", which while morally correct caused former Ba'ath to become anti-american terrorists, perhaps there is no islamic state and Zarqawi will be weaker. Unsure about private contracts with the likes of Blackwater.

He could perhaps name his friend John McCain as VP, as a sign of bipartisan union in the aftermath of 9/11, but that could be a stretch.

Don't see much else changing from 2001 to 2004.
 
I wonder if Joe Lieberman would appoint Sam Nunn to a Cabinet post. Probably Secretary of Defense or Secretary of State, but I can see Nunn becoming National Security Advisor or Ambassador to the UN.

Basically I feel like Sam Nunn would be appointed to a post that would include national security or similar related topics. I believe that Nunn might do a better job at defense planning then either Donald Rumsfeld or Paul Bremer. He also would not likely outsource as much of the invasion to companies like Blackwater.
 
Lieberman would still invade Iraq and Afghanistan. On domestic policy, he'd run an ideologically moderate administration
 
In terms of domestic policy, I'm not sure about Lieberman. He seemed to be pretty conservative in terms of his criticisms of Hollywood morality and the video game industry.
 
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