...and he's not wrong.

Ahmadinejad brings Christmas greetings.

LONDON, Dec. 24 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is offering season's greetings to Christians in a British TV address and suggesting that if Jesus were alive he would oppose "bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers" -- an apparent reference to the United States and its allies [...]

According to a transcript released in advance, Ahmadinejad says most of the world's problems stem from leaders who have turned against religion. The Muslim president doesn't refer to rival nations or leaders by name or mention Israel, despite his past calls to wipe it out.

"If Christ were on earth today, undoubtedly he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers, occupiers, terrorists and bullies the world over," Ahmadinejad said, according to the English translation of the Farsi-language speech. The broadcast will air with subtitles.

Not that the President of Iran is the greatest messenger - his country just took human rights advocate Shirin Ebadi into custody - but the teachings of Christ that this Jew is aware of do reject war, violence and intimidation. But Ahmadinejad is wrong that the world's problems stem from "leaders who have turned against religion." Indeed, most of these leaders use religion to further their own expansionist ends, and whether or not they are perverting religion in the process, this dynamic has repeated itself enough to make the "true meaning" of religion as it relates to the state to be indistinguishable.

And a Merry Christmas to you.