[InspiredPath1]

"It's good that we don't," said Cheney, "because we're not ready to do anything about it."

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. This makes sense. But of course, the press will tar Bush as being soft on terrorrism.

[justshutupandtakeit]

We are ALMOST ready to do something about it now.

[Wallaby]

I see from GS's re-post of the quotations from Woodward that I made a mistake on the page citation for the Cheney quote. I should have said p. 244 of Bush at War, not p. 167.