…but it’s a shame that it had to be this man. The former Malaysian Prime Minster Mahathir Mohamad has offended the British High Commissioner by comparing US and UK pilots in Iraq to terrorists.

“The British and American bomber pilots came, unopposed, safe and cosy in their state of the art aircraft, pressing buttons to drop bombs, to kill and maim.

“And these murderers, for that is what they are, would go back to celebrate ‘mission accomplished’.

“Who are the terrorists? The people below who were bombed or the bombers? Whose rights have been snatched away?”

The only problem is that Mahathir Mohamad is an authoritarian racist who locked up and tortured a lot of people who opposed his government while he was in power. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong about this, mind you.