LAST EDITED ON 03-26-15 AT 03:43 PM (EST)

Great idea for a thought experiment;

- whoever was VP under Reagan likely would have run, and possibly won in '88.

- he (or whoever was president, actually) would have intervened if Saddam invaded Kuwait. Only George H. Bush would have stopped the war when he did, though. IMO, that was one thing that almost no one else would have done. Continuation of that war and toppling Saddam then may have really changed what happened in the following 25 years.

- But he (whoever was president) very well may have had a son of the right age and already in politics.

- That son may have run for pres. using the prestige of his father's name.

- Regardless, whoever did run and win very well may have also swallowed the implication that (bolstered by Saddam's actions) he had those WMD's. Saddam's evasiveness was very suspicious.

- And whoever was president would have surely invaded Afghanistan after 9/11. If 9/11 happened under that scenario.

- And he also very well may have become impatient with Saddam's evasion tactics of the inspection teams, and that coupled with the rage in regard to Al Qaeda could have led him to Invade Iraq, deciding that that was the only way to avoid Saddam using those weapons.

Names may very well been different, and there are a lot of ifs, but history may very well have been largely the same.