Once they assume their chairmanships, it is a safe bet that they and their staffs will workassiduously to interfere with the Bush administration's missile-defense policies and programs as well.
And we are going to work together as assiduously as we can to make sure that those civilian casualties are reduced, even as we try to accomplish a mission, and even as we are reminding ourselves constantly that the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties in Afghanistan are as a consequence of terrorist acts by the Taliban.