Iraq, Iran and North Korea dismiss Bush accusations. The countries in question reject Dubya’s idiotic “axis of evil” innuendo.

Iran, Iraq and North Korea on Wednesday rejected an accusation by U.S. President George W. Bush that they form an “axis of evil” developing weapons of mass destruction to threaten America and the world.

Iran said Bush’s remarks smacked of a desire for hegemony, Iraq suggested they presaged a U.S. attack on Baghdad and North Korea saw them as evidence of a “policy of aggression”.

Britain said the U.S. president had made a “powerful case for the coalition’s actions against global terrorism”. France questioned the merits of labelling nations as terrorist. Reuters