Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague expressed in a different way the answer I have just given the member opposite.
The international situation is serious. It would have been preferable to have this vote before the air strikes began but, in the name of democracy, we must have it now, before getting ourselves into something that we do not know how and when it is going to end. No other decision will be more important, for all kinds of reasons. The situation will never be the same again. It is the first time NATO does such a thing.
Important changes will have to be made to international institutions. We do not have time to debate this issue any further right now, but this dirty war—because if there is war it will indeed be dirty—requires a vote before any final decision is made.