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February
5, 2003, 12:10 p.m.
On
to Baghdad
Mission accomplished.
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 ecretary
of State Colin Powell accomplished his mission today. In his presentation
to the UN Security Council, he established beyond a reasonable doubt —
at least for anyone who has a reasonably open mind — that Saddam
Hussein remains unwilling to disarm. That being the case, he has exhausted
the "last chance" to do so that he was offered last Fall by
President Bush, the U.S. Congress, and the Security Council.
Whether Hans Blix
and his colleagues choose to acknowledge it or not, they have also completed
their mission. They were to confirm Saddam's voluntary and full compliance
with Resolution 1441 and found him wanting. It is, at best, disingenuous
to suggest that their job was to find the weapons of mass destruction
and related technology that he remains determined to conceal — let
alone that it could be accomplished if only they were allowed more time
to seek needles in Iraqi haystacks.
Now the civilized
world must fulfill its mission: to disarm Iraq in the only way that has
any chance of being effective — by helping, through force of arms,
the Iraqi people liberate their country from Saddam Hussein's despotic
and dangerous misrule. President Bush has properly promised to do so even
if the U.N. is paralyzed into irrelevance. It's time for him and a coalition
of the willing to get the job done.
—
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is the president of the Center
for Security Policy and a contributing editor for NRO.
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