Posted on 04/18/2018 6:33:26 AM PDT by WisconsinRep
Richmond, VA (1140wrva.com) – State Senator Dick Black (R-Loudon), in Richmond for the General Assembly Special Sesion, took time on the Senate Floor to suggest the alleged chemical attack in Syria was a "false flag." Black has been a supporter of Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad, and even visited the country in 2016. Black views Assad as a bulwark against terrorists.
Black says if Assad had chemical weapons, he'd use them on opposing armies. He wonders why these attacks always seem to ocur around people pushing strollers. The conservative Republican, who backs President Trump, also called U.S. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's comments to the security council "shrill."
Black says the war in Syria would be figured out if the U.S. just pulled out of the country.
Yes, Dick Black supports Donald Trump.
Dick Black at Donald Trump Rally in Richmond (6/10/16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4CjPY4eQg
Dick Black is a character. I’ve attended functions at his home and met with him on numerous occasions to discuss motorcycle and gun rights issues. He is a huge proponent of individual rights.
Indeed, I would suspect that the Syrian dictator would use the chemical weapons on military targets, not his own people.
ISIS and the Jihadi however, that is right up their alley.
I recall in Jr High teachers calling attendance last name first. Got sorta embarrassing when she came to a classmate of mine named Richard Small. Richard preferred to be called by a common nickname for Richard.
Why is “Dick” a nickname for “Richard”?
There was a common practice of using rhyming nicknames in Medieval England. I’m not sure precisely why, but one reason I’ve seen is that there were a relatively small number of first names commonly used, so a variety of nicknames arose to differentiate people.
Thus, you have:
Richard -> Rick -> Dick
William -> Will -> Bill
Robert -> Rob -> Bob
Edward -> Ed -> Ted
Margaret -> Maggie -> Peggy (more of a stretch, but same principle)
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Bill-a-nickname-for-William
State Senator Dick Black ... “State Senator” ... no wonder I never heard of him.
Sounds more like Dick supports KGB Putin.
Dick Black supports Candidate Donald Trump’s views.
FLASHBACK: Here’s A List Of The Times Trump Warned Against Getting Involved In Syria
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/13/trump-list-not-involve-in-syria/
Perhaps it was before Trump was “schooled” on Russia and Putin by some wise folks within his administration. Can’t imagine Dick is fond of Trump’s tough stance on Russia today.
Mike Pence on Putin and Russia:
(from the VP debate on Oct 5, 2016)
“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts. That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”
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Also from the Oct 5, 2016 first VP debate...
QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?
PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset. After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.
And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America — the greatest nation on Earth — just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.
It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We’ve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.
And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.
There’s a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.
QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.
PENCE: We’ve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they’re dealing with a strong American president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html
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And...
PENCE: What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.
And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East.
And all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we’re not having talks anymore.
To answer your question, we just need American strength. We need to — we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region, and in the immediate, we need to act and act now to get people out of harm’s way.
Donald Trump: ‘Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time’
Mar 13, 2014
Eun Kyung Kim: TODAY SHOW (NBC)
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to “show his manhood.”
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
“We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time,” Trump said. ...”
http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
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Here’s the interview w/ Matt Lauer on YouTube...
Donald Trump (2014): ‘Vladimir Putin Has Eaten Obama’s Lunch’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzURUENf1ns
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JULY 2017...
Trump, in Warsaw Speech, Criticizes Russia’s ‘Destabilizing’ Role in Ukraine, Syria
The president also reaffirmed his commitment to NATO’s mutual-defense pact
Jul 6, 2017
President Trump called Russia a “destabilizing” influence in Europe and the Middle East, and urged it to “join the community of responsible nations,” in his strongest remarks yet against the regime of Vladimir Putin, whom he is scheduled to meet Friday in Hamburg for the first time.
His remarks in Warsaw’s Krasinski Square, which marks the 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, came after the U.S. agreed to sell Patriot missiles to Poland. The president also used the opportunity to reiterate the NATO commitment to mutual defense, a declaration he did not make during the NATO summit in May, prompting consternation among U.S. allies wary of Russia’s ambitions.
“To those who would criticize our tough stance, I would point out that the United States has demonstrated—not merely with its words but with its actions—that we stand firmly behind Article 5, the mutual-defense commitment,” Trump said Thursday. “Words are easy, but actions are what matters. And for its own protection, Europe, and you know this, everybody knows this, everybody has to know this, Europe must do more.”
Trump has repeatedly said NATO members must spend more on defense—a position in line with past U.S. administrations. But he has been criticized because he appeared to suggest U.S. commitment to mutual defense was predicated on its allies’ defense spending. ...”
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/07/trump-russia/532761/
There used to be a guy where I work named Richard Head. He always went by Richard.
I agree with Black. So does Rand Paul, the former head of the UK special forces, several UK intelligence officers and two news outlets with reporters on the ground in Douma.
Kooks on the far left and paranoid right unite!
Dick black is correct. There was zero reason for A to use cw’s now when he is winning with conventional weapons and the Turks, Sauds etc have decided to not try to oust him anymore
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