Bush Quote du Jour: "I did it once; I'll do it again."

This enigmatic quote was apparently passed, real-time, to National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley during Hadley's White House briefing this afternoon via -- who knows? -- mobile texting, a BlackBerry, cranial implants? Just kidding. It was probably a BlackBerry.
The Huffington Post, having missed the audio, understandably attributed it to Mr. Cheney:

QUESTION: Second question. When did the Vice President get briefed on this? Because he was warning of serious consequences just last month, too.

HADLEY: I've just got a note from him -- I did it once, I'll do it again.

But they printed a correction on being told that it was actually referring to the president's reaction, probably to the line by Hadley, found in this transcript from the News & Observer, that was followed by a question about the vice president which Hadley apparently wasn't paying attention to, as he was busy checking out the prez's text:

HADLEY: So again, as the President says many times, we're asking people to do hard things. We're asking people to put pressure on Iran, and it has consequences for their diplomacy, it has consequences for their companies doing business with Iran. People don't like to do that. So I'm sure some people will try and use this as an excuse or a pretext for flagging on the effort.

Our argument is, actually, it should be just the reverse, because we need to keep the halting of the nuclear weapons program in place; we need to achieve the suspension of the enrichment program; and the only way -- what this NIE says is that the best path to do that is to continue what we've been doing, which is diplomatic isolation, U.N. sanctions and other financial pressure, plus the option for negotiations.

QUESTION: Second question. When did the Vice President get briefed on this? Because he was warning of serious consequences just last month, too.

And of course, the occasion of Hadley's briefing was to react to the newly released NIE that reveals Iran halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003.

I wonder if that halting was possibly due to the very early successes in the Iraq war, such as the removal of Saddam, something they didn't want to see repeated in Iran. If we keep having all this "success" over there that we've been having lately, they might just change their minds again.