Controversy is never far from Dr M

At the end of his three-day War Crimes Conference, Mahathir left the crowd pondering by giving thumbs up to the Iraqi resistence fighters.

He congratulated the Iraqi resistence forces fighting the US-led military occupation of Iraq, urging them to "make sure the Americans pay a very high price for their adventure".

"I congratulate them, the Iraqi resistence. Carry on. You have been successful," he said, as reported by malaysiakini and wire services.

Well first he said President Bush was a war criminal and now he seems to be propagating the increase of US body bags.

Wonder what will the reaction from the Malaysian government, the international community as well as from US be to this?

an addendum:

malaysiakini carried the second part of the interview with Mahathir today where he continues his criticism in the economic mismanagement under Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

The very last question in the interview was mine:

Are you suggesting the government’s economic policy is actually imbalanced or they don’t know what they are doing?

It is up to you to decide, whether they do or not.

Not the answer we were expecting but if your look at the full transcript, that’s what he is saying.