Now, to war

President Bush has now cleared the decks for action on his most immediate and important agenda item: Ending the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his ruling clique in Iraq.

As Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney notes in his FoxNews.com column, the President secured a smashing electoral mandate on the basis of a campaign waged explicitly as a referendum on his stewardship of the war on terror.

There is now no legal or political impediment to the sort of swift action that offers the best hope of toppling Saddam with minimum U.S. casualties and at the least further cost to the Iraqi people. Evidence grows by the day that the Iraqi populace senses its liberation is at hand and is prepared to play a role — possibly a decisive one — in ending Saddam’s nightmarish reign of terror.

This is the only course of action that will ensure the genuine and complete disarmament of Iraq.

Click here for Frank Gaffney’s Fox News column.