Al-Zawahri says Bush was alcoholic who gambled on Iraq and lost

Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, blasted US President George W. Bush, saying he had been an alcoholic and was now a liar who gambled on the American people in Iraq and lost, according to a new audiotape released Tuesday.

Al-Zawahri said in the audiotape that Bush has been forced to admit his failure in Iraq after he was "stubborn" and repeated the "lie, which he became addicted to, that he is winning" in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP)