Every thinking person disbelieves Iran’s claims that their nuclear program doesn’t seek to develop nuclear weapons. Today, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Jews should leave Israel.

“We say that this fake regime [Israel] cannot ... logically continue to live,” he said, according to a translator for The Associated Press.

Ahmadinejad, in a wide-ranging news conference that included international journalists for only the second time in his short term, said anti-Semitism drove Jews out of Europe into Israel.

“We believe that Jews like any other human beings have the right to live in happiness and prosperity and to benefit from security,” he said, according to a CNN translator. “Allow them to go back to their own fatherlands and countries.”

He reminds me of somebody, but who? That aggressive posturing, that religious fervor, that sense of certainty… Who? The squint, the dopey grin…

Uh oh. It’s George W. Bush. With a beard.