A Blood-Drenched Warmonger!

Daaaang! Bush is in for three years of some wild rhetoric. I'm sure one of Bush's speech writers will have to come up with some snappy comebacks for all the names he's going to be called.

Iran's leader accused President George W Bush yesterday of being a blood-drenched warmonger who deserved to stand trial.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was replying to a veiled call by Mr Bush in his State of the Union address for Iranians to rise up against their clerical rulers.

Mr Ahmadinejad, addressing a crowd in the town of Bushehr, where Russia is building a nuclear power station, said: 'These are people whose arms are submerged up to the elbows in the blood of other nations. Wherever there is war and oppression in the world, they are involved.

'These people channel their factories to the production of weapons. These people generate wars in Asia and Africa, killing millions of people, in order to help their production, employment and economy.'

Amid chants of 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel', Mr Ahmadinejad said: 'Today they are accusing our people of violating human rights and of violating freedom.

'In the near future, Allah willing, we will put you to trial in courts established by the peoples.'

He vowed that Iran would press ahead with its nuclear programme, and would not bow before 'imaginary superpowers made of straw'.

Let's see ... Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Hamas, Osama ... all of these enemies! But Bush wants our confidence?