What happens when two world leaders, each representing a different religion, believe they are on a divine mission? I don't know, but it can't be good!

Most of us are painfully aware that George Bush believes that he is doing God's work in the middle east. And that knowledge is frightening to most of us who are logic based. Well it is about to get much, much worse!

As Iran rushes towards confrontation with the world over its nuclear programme, the question uppermost in the mind of western leaders is "What is moving its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to such recklessness?"

Political analysts point to the fact that Iran feels strong because of high oil prices, while America has been weakened by the insurgency in Iraq.

But listen carefully to the utterances of Mr Ahmadinejad - recently described by President George W Bush as an "odd man" - and there is another dimension, a religious messianism that, some suspect, is giving the Iranian leader a dangerous sense of divine mission.

In November, the country was startled by a video showing Mr Ahmadinejad telling a cleric that he had felt the hand of God entrancing world leaders as he delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly last September.

When an aircraft crashed in Teheran last month, killing 108 people, Mr Ahmadinejad promised an investigation. But he also thanked the dead, saying: "What is important is that they have shown the way to martyrdom which we must follow."

The most remarkable aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's piety is his devotion to the Hidden Imam, the Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam, and the president's belief that his government must prepare the country for his return.

Okay now if you skipped the writing in italics above you better go back and read it because it is very important. Done? Good!

Now what we have here are two religious zealots playing a game of "my God is tougher then your God"! That places all of us, no matter what our faith or lack therof, right in the middle of the shooting range. These guys believe that they are the fucking "Blues Brothers"!

"We are on a mission from God!"

You do remember the amount of damage those two yahoos did don't you? Now think of that on a worlwide scale, with nukes! Did your sphincter just close up? Yeah, me too!

I would like to volunteer a new rule for Bill Maher when he comes back in February.

New Rule: From now on we may not elect any individual who thinks the world was created and controlled by an invisible being using magic. If any person demonstrates an inclination to believe this crap they may have no public service job with any more responsibility then the local dog catcher. And if they are caught baptizing Fido? Well then they lose that job too!