October 18, 2003

IF WE'RE THE TERRORISTS CAN WE AT LEAST START BLOWING THEM UP:

Mahathir slams 'sheriff Howard' (Simon Kearney and Linda Silmalis, October 19, 2003, News.Com.AU)

MALAYSIA'S controversial leader, Mahathir Mohamad, continued his war of words with the West yesterday when he vowed to treat Australia as a "terrorist" if it acted like a US sheriff in the region.

Dr Mahathir - already under fire for remarks this week in which he said that "Jews rule the world" - was responding to reported comments by US President George Bush saying Australia was America's "sheriff" in South-East Asia.

"I can assure Australia that if it acts as a sheriff in this country it will be treated as a terrorist and dealt with as a terrorist," he said.


Here's a brief intelligence test:

(1) You believe the world to be involved in clash of civilizations and you need to take sides. Do you side with:

(A) Libya, Palestine, Iran, etc.

(B) America, Israel (as well as the multi-tentacled Zionist world-controlling cabal), Australia, etc.

(2) If you picked "A", are you:

(A) The most respected leader in the Islamic world.

(B) A f--ing idiot

(C) both.

N.B.: Pardon the language, but sometimes enough is enough.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 18, 2003 4:23 PM
Comments

The apparent cause of this particular sequel:

'Dr Mahathir ... was responding to reported comments by US President George Bush saying Australia was America's "sheriff" in South-East Asia.'

Call me doubtful.

Does anybody know of a source providing what Pres. Bush actually did (or did not) say?

Posted by: old maltese at October 18, 2003 6:51 PM

He did, sort of.

Bush was asked about a comment from 1999 that described Australia as America's "Deputy Sheriff" in the area. He said, "No. We don't see it as a deputy sheriff. We see it as a sheriff."

The BBC article attributes this quite to John Howard, but this article says otherwise.

Posted by: Timothy at October 18, 2003 7:27 PM

Timothy, thank you.

Posted by: old maltese at October 19, 2003 10:18 AM

Mahathir says ridiculous things all of the time, but usually nobody pays attention (good for Americans, who are starting to pay attention to the world!). It's usually more for domestic consumption than anything else.

Posted by: kevin whited at October 20, 2003 2:00 PM
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