'Mahathir is spinning an illusional tale. His dismissal of cold hard facts leave much to be desired, especially coming from an old man who was our PM.'

Dr M recounts Anwar's 'sexual liaisons' in memoirs

Pakman: The ‘doctor in the house' almost wreck the house he build. It's unbelievable that he did not know his ancestors' history but could clearly grasp world's history. Such a pathetic liar with a selective mind.

Why did he not mention how he used Petronas and EPF (Employees Provident Fund) money during the financial crisis to bail out his son and cronies. Despite Petronas' bailout to save his son's company (Malaysia International Shipping Corporation), he was angry, ungrateful and grumbled that his son loss almost half a billion ringgit.

Did he care that many people were made bankrupt till today due to his action to manipulate KLSE and used the financial institutions as his tool to save his son and cronies. Why did he chicken out when he had the chance to bare all in the Sodomy I trial?

It is most unfortunate that he has to end his political career unbecoming of honourable elder statesmen such as Nelson Mendala or Lee Kuan Yew.

Anon_1064: TDM (Tun Dr Mahathir) said, "This time they had evidence, including pictures and confessions of people involved" and "I then briefed party leaders about what I had learnt about Anwar and showed them pictures of the witnesses."

TDM makes it sound as if he has hard evidence such as pictures of DSAI (Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim) misdeeds but instead he only has pictures of witnesses and their statements. This type of evidence (pictures of witnesses and their statements) can be obtain with exchange of money.

Where's the sex DVD aka CSL (Chua Soi Lek)? Show it, lah .

Gandhi: I have now 70 reasons why I should not read this book.

Anonymous_5fb: Walaupun belum baca buku memoir Mahathir ini, perasaan yang ada pada saya adalah sesuatu yang binggung, marah dalam hati dan tertanya-tanya macam mana seorang insan Muslim yang tahu saya tak suka cakap buruk orang lain, dapat menulis sebuah buku begini.

Apa sudah jadi dengan Mahathir dan kuncu-kuncunya di Umno, Perkasa, Pekida dan sebagainya? Tidaklah hairan saya mengapa orang-orang Melayu khasnya tidak berniat campur dengan Umno, Perkasa dan Pekida walaupun Umno bermati-matian hendak semua Melayu di bawah naugannya.

Tetapi, terpulanglah pada Melayu sendiri kalau masih sayangkan budaya mereka yang berasaskan sopan-santun, lemah-lembut, gotong-royong, hormati orang lain khasnya orang tua, sedia pohon maaf jikalau buat salah kerana nilai-nilai murni demikian tidak bergantang kepada definasi Melayu semata-mata dalam perlembagaan.

Buat apa jadi Melayu yang dikeji orang lain dengan perbuatan yang Allah pun marah?

Docs: I will not be purchasing ‘A Doctor in the House'. The local newspapers provide enough rubbish/lies for me to read at a much cheaper cost. As for the title, I think ‘A lunatic on the Loose' is more apt.

Ferdtan: Mahathir is spinning an illusional tale in his first memoirs. His dismissal of cold hard facts leave much to be desired, especially coming from an old man who was our PM.

His 'less-than-thruthful' take on his ethnicity of having Indian blood shows the type of person who he really is: a person who can deny anything, even his parents if it suits his purpose.

Look at what he said about Anwar - the talk about Anwar having some prostitutes when it was never brought up in court in Sodomy I. It was character assassination.

Raja Chulan: Unlike the memoir by LKY (Lee Kuan Yew), which composed a team of researchers and committees to verify the facts and figures and to review its contents, this one by Dr M is a single man's tale.

We all have known Dr M for a long time - to believe or not to believe his tales would be left entirely to each of our trust in Dr M's words.

Ramakrishnan: Hello, how is that your children became millionaires and billionaire without working hard for it. But you are Mr Clean. You may bluff to some people some of the time but not all the people all the time.

I pity those Malays who blindly hero worship you. Your perverted views of Islam has corrupted many Malays. Your racism is destroying this country. If there is one man who single-handedly destroyed the social and judicial fabric of this country, it is none other than you.

Kbe: Tun M accepted the girls' words against Anwar as true although they refused to appear in court. Isn't that very convenient? But when it comes to allegations against his own cronies, he insisted on evidence.

Sabawak: So Mahathir says S Nallakaruppan is a pimp. Well, the sultan should revoke his datukship?

Quigonbond: As a student of politics and history, I will read the book. It reflects the state of mind of this complicated man. As to the truth of everything he said, I suppose the jury is still out there.

Ksn: That this man's claim about not knowing his father's origin and rationalising it in such evasive and shameful manner speaks a lot about him.

All fathers and children in Malaysia and elsewhere must feel sick to the bones to read it and accept it and even sicker to see this man for what he is. He has been saying a lot of things without any sense for a long time, but this one must take the cake as he has derided his own origin, his father and his children.

Is he saying that he did not know where his father came from and what he was? What about his children? Do they not know who their grandfather was, where he came from and his origin. May be his daughter, Marina Mahathir, should respond and write and confirm who her grandfather was, her roots, as her father seems ashamed to talk about it and accept his father.

Black Mamba: A memoir by Anwar Ibrahim, ex-finance minister, where 20 pages should be dedicated to "how the then premier, Dr M, used national petroleum company Petronas to bail out his son's Konsortium Perkapalan" would definitely make an interesting read.

When Anwar raise objection to the bailout, Dr M had to trump up unproven sodomy charges against him to remove him as an obstacle as he knew casual sexual liaison with the opposite sex is common even among his cabinet and chief ministers, and wouldn't have as much a sensation compared to homosexuality that goes directly against the grain of Islam.

Karma: The story of Anwar was so hot to him yet nothing leaked to the public before, except Ummi Hafilda was ranting about it as well as Ezam Mohd Nor, once in a while.

However, the rumours about PM Najib Razak having an affair with a local artise and caught in Port Dickson were all over town. Yet, it is funny he did not speak about it or no one came forward to Mahathir.

After watching the latest show, 'Fair Game', we now can imagine how the then US President George Bush was fooled into believing that there was WMD (weapons of mass destruction) in Iraq and he went to war against the country.

Dr M once said before it is impossible to fake Anwar's charge due to so many people being involved in it. Well, when they can fake the allegation of WMD in Iraq, why not?

By Election Fan: It's a memoir full of lies. This old man has a selective memory loss just like the case we saw in VK Lingam's RCI. He also has inferiority complex regarding his blood ties with India and to the extend that he disowns his own roots. What can we expect from a liar?

His book can only be treated as a reference book or benchmark to measure how a liar with a racist mind thinks.

Anonymous_3f68: Dr M is an inveterate and pathological liar beyond any comprehension. He tried to shield his sons and friends and most importantly Umno even today, for all their misdemeanours and misadventures definitely proves the venomous nature of this man who had damaged his own reputation as a leader internationally and domestically.

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