In any event, it is a gross mischaracterization to claim that President Bush sought to make the American people believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that he was about to pass to al Qaeda, and that's why we had to go to war.
Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Irwin dismissed Mr Catt's claim at a hearing in May 2012, ruling that his right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights had not been infringed.
The figure of 119 million mines, along with the claim that two million new mines are being laid each year, is a gross exaggeration, possibly by as much as tenfold.