What started out as a debate on whether the opposition was led by "two dictators", as claimed by the government, has veered into Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak's grasp of world history.

This was after Salleh, in a blog posting, provided "historical evidence" that there can be two dictators at the same time, in response to DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang's statement that the concept did not make sense.

Salleh, in his blog posting, gave examples of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in the Soviet Union and Maximillian Robespierre and Napoleon Bonaparte in France as examples of two dictators ruling at the same time, adding that the same happened in China, while in Cuba, Che Guevara "abandoned the revolution because he did not want to be a joint-dictator" with Fidel Castro...