A Former PM Rewrites History

Yesterday Tun Dr M launched his 800-page  magna corpus 'A Doctor in the House'.  In it he tries to portray his  22 years in office in the most positive light.  There is actually a precedent to this: In 1998 and 2000 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew had launched his own 1468-page two-volume memoir The Singapore Story in which the latter wrote the history of Singapore according to his own interpretation of events up to 1965 and from 1965 to year 2000, respectively.  While the chauvinistic LKY merely interprets events according to his world-view, Mahathir tempers with events, however well-known the facts are to many - to satisfy his own fantasy.

1.  Tun says he is obliged to tell the truths but then what he regards as truths sometimes do not match with the established records.
2.  On his arch-nemesis, Anwar Ibrahim, he repeats the allegations which first surfaced in 1998 but were challenged in the court by evidences against them.  That repeating a falsehood many times does litlle to change its status does not seem to bother Tun.  Tun seems to believe firmly in the Nazist dictum that if you repeat something, no matter how absurd, sufficient number of times then the masses will believe it.  That he did in 1998 to no avail, finally forcing him out of office.
3.  On another of his former deputy, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, he has kinder words albeit no less sinister:  had Tengku shown a litlle bit more patience the Tengku would have been a PM.
4.  On Tun Salleh Abbas, Tun was being cynical when he maintains that the former Chief Judge was given the boot because he compained about noise pollution coming from some renovation of some palace ...
3.  [To be continued ...]