Open letter to Obama from Former PM of Malaysia:?
This is an extract from an open letter sent to President Obama by the Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohammad. If you were in Obama’s place, what reply would you have given. Mature and detailed replies are welcome.
January 1, 2009
Dear Mr. President,
I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian.
But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well.
I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a lot of changes.
That is because America and Americans have become the most hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation.
It is the custom on New Year’s day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.
1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today’s wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated. War is primitive, the caveman’s way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars.
2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you.
3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you. In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed. What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people.
4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical weapons to kill more people more efficiently.
5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian.
6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries. Don’t kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.
7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions. Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system.
Sign the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements.
9) Show respect for the United Nations.
I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and undertake. But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2009th year of the Christian Era.
If you can do only a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them.
May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohammad
(Former Prime Minister of Malaysia )
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I am a viet vet. We do not need you, Dan in Miami. Your vocabulary gives you away A Rat’s backside,ay?
Does not matter if the letter is real. The points are!
170 countries (about) on this planet and we have military occupation in 130 of them 717 total permanent bases.Christians keep screaming "beware the antichrist" They have no idea that America to date has murdered over 350 million souls on this planet. Whom, may I ask is being persecuted, Christian?
To all the "Dan’s in Miami" keep your bloody filthy rag flying. One day soon ten thousands of saints are coming to drag you and that filthy rag to the abyss!
To the brave soul that posted this letter. Give me ten points before gestapo Yahoo pulls this post. They will. I have been watching them for days.
Hmm, that’s a very interesting letter. Is this letter true? Was it actually sent? Where did you find it?
Tooooo funny . . . .
Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohammad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, . . .
can kiss my flag-waving, America-loving, aging buttocks.
I don’t give a hairy rat’s backside what he thinks. We do what is in OUR best interest. We have given too much "Aid" to countries who like to burn our flag.
If it was in my power, I’d suspend ALL aid to Malaysia until we could "investigate and reseach" his rude, ungrateful commentary.
Dan in Miami
i would have wiped my butt with it and sent it back to him.he is nothing but a stooge for the international groups that want to destroy america
P.S. Please neuter the U.S. and pull it’s teeth so that we may roll over you at our discretion.
Was that a question? or did you want to enlighten us? I can’t answer for our President but we have wrote him letters live online.
funny how he points out Israel’s actions against Gaza, yet says nothing of the hundreds of missles that Hamas sent which initialized those actions…no?
Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohammad can kiss my butt
Very relevant and on track.
One thing I want to point out is the world wide opinion of the USA is not about our people, but rather what our government and business practices do to them.
Universally, through my travels I have found people truly love Americans, love our system and constitution, love our freedom, love our society and culture.
It is not our freedom they hate, which Bush told us, but rather what we do to them.
The letter is right on track.
One needs to get out in the world and live with people of other cultures to really understand that.
I met a man from India and I will paraphrase what he said, "I love Americans, but they are not worldly" which means we are good decent people who look at the world through our own rose colored glasses. The comments here attest to that, as well as the thinking of a lot of Americans, that our shiiit doesn’t stink, but in reality, it stinks to high heaven.
Being an American definitely has its perks.
Peace
Jim
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I don’t know if the good doctor did write the letter but it is the usual one sided anti-american rant one is accustomed to hear from the Islamists. Strange that it was just a few decades ago when the "honourable" muslim malaysians of his country were slaughtering ethnic chinese to purify their country. Ah yes, the "stench" of such "purifications" often wafts from Islamic countries. People living in glass houses should not throw stones.