There are other medium and long-term consequences to be addressed. The Minister of State referred to some of these but I invite him to explain why the threat posed by the Iraqi regime is greater than the long-term danger of permanent political instability in the region as a consequence of military action, a danger we claim to be trying to prevent. I also invite those in this House and elsewhere to confront the moral and political choice we face. This is not a moral but a political issue. It amounts to a political choice, around which a construct of morality is being put together. Others are diverting the argument to economic consequences and other questions, but the real issue centres on the question of whether the threat posed by the Iraqi regime is of such a scale that it justifies the harm that will be done to innocent people. At present the answer is a definite "No". We must have certainty about the existence and scale of a threat before acting against it.