SPEAKING OF ALTERNATE HISTORY: SunnyBlog looks at a world where we hadn’t invaded Iraq:

Democrat Presidential nominee John Kerry delivered a speech today condemning President Bush for failing to invade Iraq in the follow-up of military action against the Talaban and Al Qaeda in Afghanastan. “Leaving this tyrant in power in contravention of numerous United Nations resolutions is unconscionable,” Kerry told the Veterans of Foreign Wars. “He has left available a base of operations and a source of supply and money.”

Kerry went on to criticize the war against terror as “stalled” while the real threat to America, “Saddam Hussein’s Iraq goes untouched.” Kerry said, “People are murdered daily in Baghdad and throughout the country. Rape rooms are a tragic reality. Torture chambers are full as Saddam’s sons carry out their sadistic impulses on the helpless and hapless victims of this regime. President Bush has done nothing as this brutal dictator takes the money from the Oil for Food to build palaces while his people go without food…

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UPDATE: More alternate history, here.