Ted Rall for October 24, 2016
Transcript:
Man 1: 2016: What if Russia has it our for us? And what if they had a desire for Trump to beat Clinton? And what if they hacked the DNC's emails? (even though there's no evidence Russia hacked the emails.Clearly to prevent an Russian attack on our election, we must risk war. Woman: Clearly.
This is an interesting re-do on history and on the future. I don’t think either scenarios played out this way. We attacked Iraq because they flew planes into our towers on 9/11. we TRIED to attack them for wmd, but the inspectors didn’t find any, so W needed another reason to attack. The 9/11 attacks allowed him to make up a reason.Clinton is not talking about attacking Russia, just because it is helping Trump by releasing Wikileaks showing post-election strategy emails. In fact, other than being as embarrassing as anyone’s strategic emails being exposed in the middle of the race, there isn’t even that much there.