What Cheney really meant

Now that they've gone and edited the official transcript of Cheney's comments to make it appear that he said something other than what he was heard to say, and what was originally reported, I thought you would like to get this take on what Mr. Cheney was trying to say, by way of Eric Altman:

"He’s right of course. There’s no question that Osama bin Laden would prefer a Bush victory to a Kerry victory. The man may be evil but he’s not crazy. Would Kerry have let him get away at Tora Bora? Would Kerry have launched an anti-American terrorist recruitment drive in Iraq? Would Kerry have alienated the entire world from the fight against Al Qaida and made bin Laden a more poplar figure in the Arab world than the president of the United States? (Saddam Hussein, too, by the way.) And would Kerry have starved homeland security to fight a counterproductive war, thereby ensuring the effectiveness of the next attack? But what I don’t understand is, why is Cheney admitting all this?"