On the eve of President Bush’s visit to Egypt, government-controlled Egyptian newspapers launch a series of insanely vicious attacks on Bush and on the United States.

Muhammad Nafi’ wrote in Al-Gumhuriya: “It has been proven that Bush and Saddam are the two sides of the same coin, they are both murderers, oppressors, tyrants, [and] dictators who turn their backs on international laws and standards.”

… We already long for the Saddam era, in comparison with the Bush era. Saddam showed himself in front of everyone as an evil, blood-shedding despot, while Bush dressed himself as a white angel, and convinced everyone that he is a good man with an angelic mission and that his goal is to save them from evil, to put an end to their humiliation and to feed them. And as it is a divine good-deed, he does not require thanks or reward! In time they discovered that the devil and the angel are one person who is performing two tasks, Saddam fed them poison, even though he clearly wrote the contents on the bottle, but Bush is giving them the poison mixed with sweet honey!!” …

Anis Mansour, a renowned columnist for Al-Ahram wrote: “President Bush should get treated by American psychiatrists. Not because he is crazy… President Bush the son is much more attached to his mother than to his father. So, we are faced with a case of Oedipus, who loved his mother and murdered his father. Bush the son enrolled in the same schools that his father attended. He worked in the same occupation as his father: buying and selling oil. He got closer to his mother when his sister died of cancer. When he was six years old, his mother heard him say to his friends: I cannot leave my mother in these conditions.” …

Dr. Fathi Abd Al-Fattah wrote in Al-Gumhuriya: “…Bush senior, Bush junior, bin Laden, Al-Qa’ida, Taliban, Sharon, Netanyahu, and the Likud party are rooted in a radical religious mythology. All of them act against socialist principles and social justice [using] religious slogans and excuses. They maintain that they are the camp of believers which fights the camp of heretics. One can scratch one’s head in a serious attempt to understand which one is the evil-camp indeed…”

An editorial in Al-Gumhuriya claimed that the Americans recently killed in clashes with Iraqis will make the U.S. realize that “this fire will keep on raging because nations do not consent to foreign occupation, even if it gives them silk and velvet. Nations do not accept occupation, despite its sweet promises of democracy and prosperity.”

“Therefore, the Americans should expect additional casualties. The longer the occupation continues, the greater the number of casualties will become. While the Americans celebrated their victory over the Iraqi dictatorship, they forgot that they defeated Saddam and the Ba’ath, but did not defeat the spirit of the courageous [Iraqi] people. Nations are not defeated in one, two, or three battles. The way nations resist occupation is sweeping, even if it has to deal with the mightiest power in the world.”

There’s a lot more whacked out vitriol in this MEMRI article, translated from the official press of a country that takes $2 billion a year in foreign aid from the United States.