Originally posted by Don©:
[b]PUTRAJAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad returned from a
two-week holiday in London yesterday as defiant as ever, refusing
to cease disputing the Governments decision to scrap the Johor
Strait bridge project.
He said as a citizen, he had a right to do so if the countrys
sovereignty was surrendered.
"If you surrender your sovereignty to Singapore ... I think this is
a half-past-six country which has no guts," the former prime
minister told reporters at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport
on his return.
"I promised not to interfere in politics and I have not said
anything about many things done which were wrong.
"But this is the limit to surrender your sovereignty to Singapore
as if you are scared of them.
"This does not speak well of your self-respect."
Asked to what extent he would pursue the matter, Dr Mahathir
said:
"I cannot go to war ... I have no power."
He dismissed talk that Umno members were worried that his conflict
with the present administration over the bridge issue would
disunite Umno.
The bridge issue, he said, had nothing to do with disunity and was
about self-respect.
Asked why he had not given his recent open letter to Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi instead of distributing it to Umno
members, Dr Mahathir said:
"I did not write the letter to him. What for? Even if I talk to you
(the media), it wont see the light of day in the papers.
"Even if I were to give it to you to publish, you will not do
it.
"Even if you do, Kalimullah will chop it," he said, referring to
New Straits Times Press deputy chairman and editorial adviser Datuk
Kalimullah Hassan.
However, Dr Mahathir described his relationship with Abdullah as
"very fine and very good".
"I am unhappy only when you kowtow. This is our country, yet we
have to seek permission from another country to build a bridge on
our side. Where is the sovereignty?"
Source- New straits times
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Siao lang. 
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if you read into this they are trying to use singapore as the
bogeyman again but DR.M is indirectly and very subtlely calling
badawi a coward. 
Badawi may have succeeded Mahathir as the leader but
still I don't think one should go around calling the leader of his
country a coward in the national newspaper and not to mention
sending a letter to all umno members except badawi is like trying
to mastermind a revolt or coup? People may think Mahathir is
planning to take back the premiership he gave to badawi.
I think there will be a showdown soon maybe one behind closed
doors. you cannot have 2 tigers on the same hill.
