During a meeting with several media representatives in Miami, Florida, one of them directly questioned the 79-year-old Republican about whether there was any division with the vice president regarding the military conflict he decided to launch.

“We got along very well on this. I would say he was a little different from me philosophically. I think maybe he wasn't as enthusiastic about going, but I felt it was something we had to do. I didn't think we had any other choice. If we didn't do it, it would have been done to us,” he replied without hesitation.

And to be more emphatic, the nation's leader stated that he came to feel that the Iranians were only trying to buy time, as there was no concrete interest in reaching an agreement to guarantee the abandonment of their nuclear program.