U.S. diplomats have some catty criticisms for leaders Kim Jong-Il, Angela Merkel and Silvio Berlusconi. | AP Photos Close

Many observers, commenting on the WikiLeaks cable dump, have noted that some of the leaked dispatches read like pages torn from a diplomatic version of the “burn book” from the movie “Mean Girls.” In the film, Regina George (the mean girl played by Rachel McAdams) and her cronies fill up a scrapbook, called the “burn book,” with biting vignettes and catty criticisms of their classmates. New York magazine, quick to make the connection, asked: “If WikiLeaks's latest data dump is the equivalent of distributing photocopies of America's Burn Book, would that make Hillary Clinton the Regina George of international relations?”

That charge seems a bit unfair. Still, here are a few of the diplomatic burns, reported in both the Guardian and the New York Times:

Kim Jong-Il is a “flabby old chap” (according to a diplomatic source).

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is just the “Robin” to Prime Minister Putin’s “Batman,” even though Medvedev’s position is supposed to be the more senior (according to a cable from the Moscow Embassy).

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is “feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader" (according to a U.S. diplomat in Rome).

Robert Mugabe is simply “the crazy old man.”

Hanid Karzai, the Afghan president, is “an extremely weak man,” reads a dispatch from Kabul.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is “risk averse and rarely creative” (according to a U.S. diplomat).

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is "thin-skinned and [has an] authoritarian personal style," read a dispatch from the Paris embassy.

Burn.