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■TIMES-ONLINE 　 November 07, 2002

Buoyant Bush wins mandate for war

From Roland Watson in Washington, James Bone in New York and Tim Hames

Hours after his party seized control of the Senate and increased its majority in the House of Representatives, Mr Bush set the clock ticking for military action against President Saddam Hussein.

Officials tabled a final draft resolution at the United Nations in New York that will establish a series of “trip-wires” for an attack should Baghdad fail to co-operate with UN weapons inspectors.

The Administration will press for a Security Council vote tomorrow. The resolution is expected to win overwhelming approval from the 15-strong Security Council, though President Chirac of France and Russia’s President Putin were still calling last night for the removal of “certain ambiguities”.

As it stands, the resolution is a compromise that frees America of the need for a second UN resolution before going to war, but promises that any Iraqi violations would first be “assessed” in the Security Council.
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Tom Daschle, the Democrats’ leader in the Senate, acknowledged that the vote had been a referendum on the War on Terror, Iraq, US foreign policy and national security. “The President made that his drumbeat,” he said.

David Phillips, a senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said: “The election is a war mandate. The American people wanted to show solidarity with the Bush Administration’s war against terrorism and their support for the White House’s national security approach. War with Iraq was already likely. It is now inevitable unless Saddam fully complies with his international obligations.”
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