In today's Malay Mail (pg 17), the headline, datelined KUTA (Indonesia) read as above. The report stated that "US President Bush said yesterday that he rebuked Malaysian PM at the recently concluded APEC summit over his controversial 'Jews ruled the world' remarks." He told Dr M that the remarks were 'reprehensible, divisive and unnecessary' and added "I did not yell at him, I just told him". he also told Dr M, "You can't pit groups against each other". That's Bush's side of the story. Could it be that when Bush used those words :: 'reprehensible, divisive and unnecessary' he was referring to the strong words he had used against Dr M, hence leading Dr M to say that Bush 'regretted' having said them. Yesterday, in Bangkok, Dr M denied western media reports that he had been rebuked by Bush. Anyway Bush saw a silver lining in Dr M's speech :: "He (Dr M)said that we need more education, a terrorist ban, which is good, that was positive". So the spin goes on, Dr M :: "No Rebuke"; Bush :: "I rebuked Mahathir". Being politicians, one other likely scenario is that the two had agreed to say their own versi for consumation of differing audiences.
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