this needs it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5992886/Go down to "Not breaking through yesterday..." (no kidding).
That's where it starts. It is the ONLY place I can find still quoting Cheney (as in "Russia still got hit").
Here's the full piece on that link:
Not breaking through yesterday, but worth mentioning: Cheney's strikingly aggressive comments about Russia "keeping its head down" during the war on terror and getting hit anyway."
Responding to the question, "Previously Russia hasn't always been as supportive, with recent circumstances, would Russia take a more aggressive stance and continue to fight terrorism with us around the world?" Cheney said, "You know, there's been a, in some circles, in Europe for example, some of our European friends have been somewhat ambivalent about this whole proposition with respect to how we deal with terrorist attacks. I think some have hoped that if they kept their heads down and stayed out of the line of fire, they wouldn't get hit. I think what happened in Russia now demonstrates pretty conclusively that everybody is a target. That Russia, of course, didn't support us in Iraq, they didn't get involved in sending troops there, they've gotten hit anyway."
Per MSNBC's Priya David, the Bush-Cheney campaign said afterward that Cheney was talking in the broader context of the war on terror. Spokesperson Anne Womack said that the Vice President was saying that the consequences of terrorism can affect anyone, regardless of whether they joined America in the "exercises" or not. Kerry spokesperson Phil Singer argued that this was another example of Cheney linking September 11 and Iraq, despite Colin Powell's Sunday remarks that there is no link.
That Womack woman is wrong. That is NOT what he said.
Can anyone help me with media blasting this???