Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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The only way you could take that quote to mean what you're saying it means is if you cut it off in the middle of it. (Which, I grant you, is the approach many news outlets took in trying to distort what Cheney was saying).

The risk he was referring to was the misguided reaction of Kerry to a possible attack, which he was absolutely spot-on about (see Kerry's comments in NY Times Magazine).