Friday, April 14, 2006

Who supported the bridge in Cabinet ?

It is now easy - but rather unfair (I think we must try to be fair to even people we don't agree on many things) - to blame the idea of building the "crooked" or "scenic" bridge on ex-PM Dr. Mahathir Mohamad alone.

True, Tun may be the one who first conceived the idea and advocated it in the Cabinet but the final decision to go ahead and make public the plan still needed the collective approval of the Cabinet. So the questions now are who supported the idea in Cabinet in 2003? Who opposed it? Who first advised against it but backed down later to support it? Who did not take a stand at all?

One way to deal with double-faced ministers (who may have supported the idea in Cabinet in 2003 when Tun was there but now who now welcomes the cancellation and blame everything to Tun as if they themselves were innocent) is to declassify and release the Cabinet minutes relating to the deliberation and decision-making process on the "crooked" or "scenic" bridge.

Did, or did not, Pak Lah, Najib, Ong Ka Teng, Samy Vellu or Dr. Lim Keng Yaik object to Dr. Mahathir's idea in Cabinet in 2003?

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