Attacks against the US president George Bush have dominated speeches by world leaders for the third straight day at the UN General Assembly.

Bush was criticized by Robert Mugabe a day after Bush described the governments of Belarus, Syria, Iran and North Korea as "brutal regimes", and criticised Robert Mugabe's government as "tyrannical".

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, criticized Bush on Wednesday, saying he, with Iraqi blood on his hands, had "much to atone for and little to lecture us on". "His hands drip with innocent blood of many nationalities," Mugabe said. "He kills in Iraq; he kills in Afghanistan. And this is supposed to be our master on human rights?" He said the US was "primarily responsible for rewriting core tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights", adding: "We seem all guilty for 9/11."

Cuba also criticized Bush and called for an end to a "cruel dictatorship". Felipe Perez Roque, Cuba's foreign minister, described Bush's talk of democracy as a lie, saying he came into office "through fraud and deceit".

"We would have been spared his presence yesterday and would have listened to president Al Gore talking about climate change and the risks to our species," he said.

Al Jazeera