The Luton protesters were angry men.

And I’m angry too - but in a different way.

Even now, looking back, it’s hard to believe I was that trusting of our politicians.

I really believed the news reports in the papers and on TV about Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. I took at face value the Ministry of Defence’s “sexed-up” intelligence dossier about scud missiles hitting British bases in Cyprus.

I felt British interests were under threat.

I decided to act.

In February 2003 I decided to reenlist in the Territorial Army.

Within months of the cessation of hostilities it became obvious that there were no scuds, no weapons of mass destruction, no nothing to be found in Iraq.

Then we had the Hutton enquiry, followed a few months later by the Butler report.