Is that a threat or a promise?

[yendi]

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States,"
--Richard "Penis" Cheney, today.

"Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line today, showing once again that he and George Bush will do anything and say anything to save their jobs."
--John "I've shat things with more class than the Vice President" Edwards, in response