Senior cleric calls Bush 'ignorant'

Tehran: US President George W. Bush's plan to dispatch more troops to Iraq is a sign of his ignorance and a move that he will come to regret, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati said on Friday.

"The nonsense and silly remarks by Mr. Bush regarding sending more than 20,000 troops to Iraq shows his ignorance," said Janati, who heads Iran's powerful legislative watchdog, the Guardians Council.

"While such a move is condemned in America, in Iraq and other places, he wants to increase his troops," he said during Friday prayers at Tehran University, carried live on state radio.
"When a person has no brain, he is doomed to regret it," he added to a chorus of "death to America" from the worshippers.