The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said on Sunday that Col. Moammar Gadhafi is “on his heels” and Libyan people need to take advantage of the situation and remove their dictator.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) heralded the ongoing U.S., British, and French air strikes, and bucked criticism of President Obama’s communication with the Congress, saying that he has clearly laid out the U.S.’s end game in the North African country.

“[The mission is] to prevent the slaughter of civilians in Libya and to make sure that continues with a no fly zone, which would be maintained over Libya to prevent Gadhafi from reasserting control of the air,” said Levin on CNN’s "State of the Union."