Tying One Hand Behind The Back.

President Obama's announcement that the United States will not use nuclear weapons first in any future conflict has been praised as the end of an outdated doctrine that only applied to the Cold War.

However this isn't really the case, during the first Gulf War Saddam Hussein indisputably had chemical and biological weapons. However he didn't use them despite having done so against Iran and the Kurds. Whilst it cannot be proven definitively it seems probably that the thinly veiled threat of a nuclear counterstrike was decisive in deterring him from trying this.

That threat would not have been credible had a promise not to launch a first strike been in place.

George Galloway.

The litigious cat impersonator George Galloway has been found guilty by the parliamentary standards committee of lying about receiving money through 'charity' from the former regime of Saddam Hussein. The committee also concluded that the documents the Daily Telegraph printed about this several years ago were genuine. Did Galloway perjure himself in that trial? If so is there sufficient evidence to prosecute him for that?

George Galloway's depravity goes well beyond partisan politics, he has consistantly supported some of the most vile regimes on the planet, whether out of principle or to get rich doing so. The evidence against him is damning and no amount of bluster can disguise that, hopefully he will now disappear into the obscurity he deserves.

Hanging Around.

One of the overlooked facets of the recent Saddam hanging is the fact that George Galloway has a lost an indefatigable friend. What's more it came as a terrible surprise to him, the day before Saddam went to the gallows George was informed that one of his closest allies would be swinging that night but naturally he assumed that it was a reference to Tommy Sheridan's plans for the holiday season.