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* DraftDodging:
** A lot of Americans ''are'' not amused at the prospect of being drafted. Eminem made a ProtestSong called "Fuck the Draft" and burned his draft cards along with others.
** Iranians are not amused at being drafted either: with one draftee [[ClusterFBomb colorfully]] saying,“I’d rather press my face to a hippopotamus’s asshole after it chugged laxatives than go through that again. They swarmed on top of us like flies on Shit Mountain. As we took that head-on, I realised that life was just a shitty video game - one life, no continues.”
** A lot of Americans ''are'' not amused at the prospect of being drafted. Eminem made a ProtestSong called "Fuck the Draft" and burned his draft cards along with others.
** Iranians are not amused at being drafted either: with one draftee [[ClusterFBomb colorfully]] saying,“I’d rather press my face to a hippopotamus’s asshole after it chugged laxatives than go through that again. They swarmed on top of us like flies on Shit Mountain. As we took that head-on, I realised that life was just a shitty video game - one life, no continues.”
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** Quite a few YouTubers in our timeline end up conscripted during the War on Terror.
** Marjane Satrapi, author of the comic book ComicBook/Persepolis, [[spoiler: becomes Reza Pahlavi's successor as President on the left-wing Tudeh Party ticket]].
** Marjane Satrapi, author of the comic book ComicBook/Persepolis, [[spoiler: becomes Reza Pahlavi's successor as President on the left-wing Tudeh Party ticket]].
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** Quite a few YouTubers in our timeline end up conscripted during the War on Terror.
Terror. [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]] as a private recalls an Iranian POW's rather potty-laced remark on being drafted.
** Marjane Satrapi, author of the comic bookComicBook/Persepolis, ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}, [[spoiler: becomes Reza Pahlavi's successor as President on the left-wing Tudeh Party ticket]].
** Marjane Satrapi, author of the comic book
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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent:
**Bush Jr is basically President Unmodified during his term during the Iraq War, though like in OTL, he is usually portrayed in media as President Evil or President Buffoon.
**Paul Wellstone is President Minority (the first Jewish President) and tried to be President Personable, but his incompetence in handling the John Edwards situation had earned him a President Buffoon reputation.
**On the South Korean side, Kim Dae-jung ends up almost as a President Target. Lee Hoi-chang is President Iron due to hardline stance on North Korea.
**Bush Jr is basically President Unmodified during his term during the Iraq War, though like in OTL, he is usually portrayed in media as President Evil or President Buffoon.
**Paul Wellstone is President Minority (the first Jewish President) and tried to be President Personable, but his incompetence in handling the John Edwards situation had earned him a President Buffoon reputation.
**On the South Korean side, Kim Dae-jung ends up almost as a President Target. Lee Hoi-chang is President Iron due to hardline stance on North Korea.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Bashar al-Assad’s Syria gets a glow-up in its international reputation as part of a “charm offensive” the regime executes after its withdrawal from Lebanon.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Bashar al-Assad’s Syria gets a glow-up in its international reputation as part of a “charm offensive” the regime executes after its withdrawal from Lebanon.Lebanon.
* WeHaveReserves: How the Iranian, North Korean, and Iraqi forces view their army.
* WeHaveReserves: How the Iranian, North Korean, and Iraqi forces view their army.
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* HolidayCeasefire: American and Iranian forces managed to create one on Christmas 2002.
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* HolidayCeasefire: American and Iranian forces managed to create one on Christmas 2002. American soldiers met Iranian soldiers singing Persian versions of "All I want for Christmas is You’" and were moved at the peace gesture, wanting to end this war as quickly as possible. They also arranged some impromptu soccer matches between the Americans and the Iranians, with the British soldiers apparently offended in calling football soccer and the Americans deciding that they could better results in basketball games, which they did. The Wrestling/WWE had hosted a Christmas wrestling match for US soldiers in Kuwait, and the audience and wrestlers' response is that whatever the reason this war started, they will be still be proud to be an American.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Iran bankrolled protests by foreign workers in Qatar, but they are not that different from Qatar: when Iran won the World Cup bid for 2022, they hired workers from their Iraqi vassal state to build their stadiums at very low pay.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Iran bankrolled protests by foreign workers in Qatar, but they are not that different from Qatar: when Iran won the World Cup bid for 2022, they hired workers from their Iraqi vassal state to build their stadiums at very low pay.
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* NotSoDifferent: Iran bankrolled protests by foreign workers in Qatar, but they are not that different from Qatar: when Iran won the World Cup bid for 2022, they hired workers from their Iraqi vassal state to build their stadiums at very low pay.
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* ChildSoldiers: North Korea liberally uses them in the conflict, with Kim Jong-il encouraging it in order to "initiate psychological devastation on their murderers".
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* ChildSoldiers: North Korea liberally uses them in the conflict, with Kim Jong-il encouraging it in order to "initiate psychological devastation on their murderers". It is implied that Iran's Ayatollahs are probably doing the same thing.
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* DeadlyGas:
** Kim Jong-il ordered Scud missiles loaded with poison gas to be fired not at US bases in Japan, but on the Japanese population centers like Tokyo and Yokohama.The death toll was about three thousand. Fresh from the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo subway attack, the Japanese response was full of rage against anything about North Korea.
** Later when Pyongyang was surrounded by American troops, Kim Jong-il ordered a gas attack against the US forces. This was not forgiven by the Americans either.
** Kim Jong-il ordered Scud missiles loaded with poison gas to be fired not at US bases in Japan, but on the Japanese population centers like Tokyo and Yokohama.The death toll was about three thousand. Fresh from the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo subway attack, the Japanese response was full of rage against anything about North Korea.
** Later when Pyongyang was surrounded by American troops, Kim Jong-il ordered a gas attack against the US forces. This was not forgiven by the Americans either.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Iran, after years of the rule of the Ayatollahs, civil war, and invasion, had become a prosperous and relatively stable democracy thanks to the son of the last Shah, a moderate conservative as president and Marjane Satrapi, a former comic book author and a member of the socialist Tudeh Party. Not to mention that the Iranian people themselves have endeavored themselves to reconstruction, improving gender relations, and re-acquiring regional political clout.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: As the war raged on, it became clear that whatever Bush's support had have long been gone, and was a decisive factor in Bush deciding to serve only one term.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: As ZeroPercentApprovalRating:
**As the war raged on, it became clear that whatever Bush's support had have long been gone, and was a decisive factor in Bush deciding to serve only oneterm.term.
**Eventually, Kim Jong-il's narcissism and ego costed him his country (not that he actually cared for it), his country's allies (China's Hu Jintao was enraged by Kim Jong-il's hubris when he negotiated a way out for him), and even his own supporters and family (Kim Jong-un allegedly didn't protest Kim Jong-il being kidnapped by South Korean agents and his own uncle Kim Song-ju in a trial testified that Kim Jong-il apparently killed his brother Kim Man-il by drowning when they were children and he was not born in North Korea but in the Soviet Union instead).
**As the war raged on, it became clear that whatever Bush's support had have long been gone, and was a decisive factor in Bush deciding to serve only one
**Eventually, Kim Jong-il's narcissism and ego costed him his country (not that he actually cared for it), his country's allies (China's Hu Jintao was enraged by Kim Jong-il's hubris when he negotiated a way out for him), and even his own supporters and family (Kim Jong-un allegedly didn't protest Kim Jong-il being kidnapped by South Korean agents and his own uncle Kim Song-ju in a trial testified that Kim Jong-il apparently killed his brother Kim Man-il by drowning when they were children and he was not born in North Korea but in the Soviet Union instead).
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Kim Il-Sung's corpse was hidden allegedly in a secret location in Pyongyang after American bombings. When Pyongyang was poisoned by the radiation, it is assumed that the corpse was still in whatever location it was, made inaccessible due to the dirty bomb radiation.
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* NotSoDifferent: Iran bankrolled protests by foreign workers in Qatar, but they are not that different from Qatar: when Iran won the World Cup bid for 2022, they hired workers from their Iraqi vassal state to build their stadiums at very low pay.
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* MultinationalTeam: as in OTL, the Coalition deployed against Iraq is composed of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and others. However due to the duration and emboldened opposition to the war, a few members such as South Africa left the Coalition.
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** The fictional authors about the Second Korean War were named [[Manga/CityHunter Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makimura]]. Similarly [[Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes Yang Wen-li]] is an author on post-Kim Korea.
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** The fictional authors about the Second Korean War were named [[Manga/CityHunter Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makimura]]. Similarly [[Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes Yang Wen-li]] is an author on post-Kim Korea.Korea, as well as [[Manga/SakigakeOtokojuku Heihachi Edajima]].
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* SparkOfARebellion: a workplace accident in Qatar in 2010 caused a walkout by indentured foreign workers and later started a revolt that results in it being crushed by the Saudis.
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* SparkOfARebellion: SparkOfTheRebellion: a workplace accident in Qatar in 2010 caused a walkout by indentured foreign workers and later started a revolt that results in it being crushed by the Saudis.
