Morrissey: verbal broadside on Bush and Blair. - AP Photo

Morrissey has gone into politician-castigating mode again, this time taking pot shots at US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The ex-Smiths frontman was speaking in reference to the bombings on the London transport network in June last year.

"My view was, how would anyone be remotely surprised? It's an obvious retaliation against Blair's intentions," Morrissey said. "And you can't refer to these things as being terrorist attacks and yet assume that the actions of Blair and Bush are not terrorism. They're worse than terrorism; they're the actions of egotistical monsters."

"Bush views Iraq and thinks, 'Well, we will control this country eventually anyway so it doesn't matter how many people we kill'," he added.

Morrissey's new album, Ringleader of the Tormentors, will be released on April 3.