Timothy Birdnow

Bill Maher, host of "Real Time" and the formerly misnamed "Politically Incorrect" continues his desent into madness.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/04/21/maher-were-gassing-syrians-too-with-co2-syrian-problem-started-with-climate-change/

Maher claims:

"we talk about Assad gassing people, we’re gassing them too. We’re just doing it slower with CO2.”

and he makes the ridiculous assertion Syria's problems stem from Climate Change (gee, I thought it was a result of foreign intervention to drive the decades-long dictator out of power.)

Now, I have no doubt Maher knows well what it means to be gassed; I suspect he's frequently on the sauce. But how can he possibly think this sort of stupidity gives him any credibility whatsoever?

The Syrian Civul War had its roots in the Egyptian and Libyan rebellions, which were fostered by the U.S. government. Here is a timeline of events. It is clear that Syria was swept up in the wave of "Arab Spring" which was a result of the Iraq invasion and falling oil prices. Even the New York Times recognized the U.S. involvement in promoting the rebellion:

"The money spent on these programs was minute compared with efforts led by the Pentagon. But as American officials and others look back at the uprisings of the Arab Spring, they are seeing that the United States’ democracy-building campaigns played a bigger role in fomenting protests than was previously known, with key leaders of the movements having been trained by the Americans in campaigning, organizing through new media tools and monitoring elections.

A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks"

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"Some Egyptian youth leaders attended a 2008 technology meeting in New York, where they were taught to use social networking and mobile technologies to promote democracy. Among those sponsoring the meeting were Facebook, Google, MTV, Columbia Law School and the State Department.

"We learned how to organize and build coalitions,” said Bashem Fathy, a founder of the youth movement that ultimately drove the Egyptian uprisings. Mr. Fathy, who attended training with Freedom House, said, "This certainly helped during the revolution.”"

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And declining oil prices weakened both Asad and his Russian backers. Couple that with the power vaccuum left by the fall of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent rebellion against the U.S. occupation and you have a perfect storm for the rise of something like ISIS. Global Warming has zilch to do with any of this.

Yet here is Maher making ridiculous claims without even realizing how monumentally idiotic he sounds.

I am mindful of the end of the excellent Peter Sellers movie "being There" where it concludes "life is a state of mind". I don't know about life, but Climate Change sure as hell meets that definition.

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