CNN
Vice President JD Vance, in his first public comments since President Donald Trump authorized US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, emphasized that the US is ‘not at war’ with Iran as he laid out the president’s decision-making process.
‘We’re not at war with Iran. We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program,’ Vance said in an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,’ calling the strikes a ‘testament to the power of the American military.’
Asked what intelligence led to the decision, Vance described a ‘narrow window of opportunity.’
‘We had a narrow window of opportunity. We might not have been able to carry out this attack six months down the road… We have a narrow window in which we can set that program back a very long time. It would have been irresponsible, I think, for the president not to take the action that he did,’ he said.
Vance added, ‘Of course we trust our intelligence community, but we also trust our instincts. … The Iranians stopped negotiating in good faith – that was the real catalyst.’
The vice president also suggested that Trump arrived at the conclusion to authorize the strikes after issuing what he described as ‘private ultimatums’ to Iran. He declined to detail those ultimatums.
CNN has previously reported that Trump offered Iran a 60-day window in April to negotiate, asking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off on striking the country to allow those talks to progress.
If you support the murderous, rogue nation of Israel, you ARE at war with the rest of mankind. St. Paul said that, and it’s been shown to be true….repeatedly.
VP Vance sounds quite juvenile in his drivel … I worry for the poor-bloke if he really expects people, even the nonces, to believe that it is okay to engage in pre-meditated heavy-bombing attacks of a ‘sovereign-country’, in breach of UN Policies, on the vital infrastrucure of a country that you’re NOT at war with? Who TF elects or selects these knobsucking-numbats? Could somebody, anybody … please explain the finer points of the UN Charter and International Diplomacy to these F-wits, because their bullshit is embarrasing. And while that somebody is explaining the finer points – do please give Vance, Hogseth and Rubio some tissues to wipe the manure dribbling from their mouths.