Dr M's bad breath

Dr M blasts Abdullah over IDR rules (an excerpt)

By S JAYASANKARAN IN KUALA LUMPUR

(29.03.07) AFTER five months of relative quiet, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad returned to the offensive, this time attacking Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's plan to relax laws governing investment in the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) in southern Johor state.

Last week, Mr Abdullah decreed that investors in the IDR would be exempted from Foreign Investment Committee (FIC) rules which include the requirement that ethnic Malays must be accorded 30 per cent in all spheres of economic activity in Malaysia from employment to equity participation.

Dr Mahathir, who rose in politics as an out and out Malay nationalist, said that such a policy would not make Malaysia 'our country at all', implying, as his wont, that it was a sell-out to foreigners. 'The Malays will lose out,' Dr Mahathir said. 'They are not ready to compete with those (businessmen) who will come into the IDR. . . We will be enslaved again.'

Pray tell, when will they be ready? Unto infinity and beyond?

What drama. What cowardice.

What a stink. He should shut up.