Ted Rall for February 11, 2013
Transcript:
The president's lawyers say he has broad powers-surprise!- to do anything he wants in cyberwarfare, including launching a preemptive strike against another nation. But an Iraq-style war of choice would be harder to sell to the American people because, as a white house official put it: "it would be very hard to provide evidence to the world that you hit some deadly dangerous computer code. (Man: Less than a gig of code- the amount of programming on this thumb drive- would be enough to crash every copy of "World of Warcraft" from Maine to Honolulu.