In this debate people are leaving off the intro to the quote...here is Cheney's quote, now, what does it really mean?

On Tuesday, campaigning in Iowa, Cheney had said: “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.”

Now come on Kevin, can you honestly say that Cheney was not trying to get the meaning across that if you vote for a Democrat in Nov, then we'll be attacked again?