So we can find no explanation — other than irresponsibility — for their vote to slash financing for eight antiterrorist programs.
The best way to honor today's victims is to redirect money from the useless missile shield to effective antiterrorist programs.
Again and again, Mr. Kerry portrayed Mr. Bush as a president who had squandered a huge surplus left by President Bill Clinton in order to push through tax cuts for the wealthy that Mr. Kerry said had led to ruinous cuts in spending on social and antiterrorist programs at home.
Ridge developed a program of antiterrorist training, preventive technologies, and emergency responses.
He said today that no programs except antiterrorist initiatives would be held sacred, even those he has championed himself.
In September Kuchma announced the formation of an antiterrorist centre in a four-year program to combat crime.
The commission concluded that the program, which was shut down 11 months later, "yielded no useful antiterrorist information and led to no visa denials".
In other words, with an effective antiterrorist policy there would be no Guantánamo, no detention without fair trial, no secret wiretapping programs and no "renditions" of suspects to friendly but foul regimes that practice torture.
"I think the program is stupendous," said Maj. Gen. Douglas V. O'Dell, the commanding general of the Marines' antiterrorist brigade, who addressed one of the workshops here and who said he wrote poetry himself, though he didn't volunteer to recite any.
Abby Smith, a Cisco spokeswoman, said the suspension was part of a routine overhaul of the program, which Cisco would not reinstate "until we get more clarity around the government's antiterrorist guidelines".
