Frantic Vance Backpedals as He Gets Fingered for Iran War

Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images Vice President JD Vance privately urged the president and White House officials that if the U.S. does strike Iran, it should “go big and go fast.” The new revelations of Vance’s role in the strikes from the New York Times and CBS News come after previous assertions suggesting the vice president had reservations about President Donald Trump’s plan to start a war with Iran . Vance, who has previously been skeptical of U.S. involvement in foreign wars, “expressed reservations” in the days leading up to Saturday’s strikes on Iran, a Saturday report from The Atlantic noted. His concerns were echoed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine and senior Pentagon official Elbridge Colby. Read more at The Daily Beast.