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JBX · 09-13-2003, 08:56 AM

Ed Koch: Bush Haters Should be 'Horsewhipped'

Democratic Party elder statesman and former New York City Mayor Ed Koch said Thursday that he was outraged by some of the anti-Bush protesters he saw while on the way to Ground Zero yesterday to commemorate the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

"What bothered me was that as I came down the highway there were pickets and the sign that they carried said 'Bush Regime Engineered 9/11,'" Koch told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity.

"I want to tell you, I had the desire to go out and horsewhip these people," he complained," saying that "the idea that they would picket the site and blame the president for those casualties is an outrage."

Koch also had some choice words for fellow Democrats who have attacked Bush over the war in Iraq.

"Nobody wants [to see U.S.] casualties. But the fact that they were as minimal as this was miraculous," he contended, especially "when you had all the people like [Sen. Ted] Kennedy predicting thousands of body bags."

Then, broadening his criticism to include other anti-war Democrats, Koch complained, "It's an outrage that they conduct themselves the way they are."

The one-time top New York City Democrat then directed his fire toward the Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, telling Hannity, "I also consider Howard Dean to be McGovern II. I mean, that's the only way I can describe him."

Koch said that the Democratic Party's left wing "hates not only the United States but it hates our ally, the state of Israel. And what Howard Dean is doing is appealing to that radical left."

Last week Dean said that the U.S. should not "take sides" when Israel comes under attack by Palestinian terrorist factions.

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JBX Unfair and Imbalanced Location: Upstate, NY	Ed Koch: Bush Haters Should be 'Horsewhipped' Ed Koch: Bush Haters Should be 'Horsewhipped' Democratic Party elder statesman and former New York City Mayor Ed Koch said Thursday that he was outraged by some of the anti-Bush protesters he saw while on the way to Ground Zero yesterday to commemorate the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. "What bothered me was that as I came down the highway there were pickets and the sign that they carried said 'Bush Regime Engineered 9/11,'" Koch told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity. "I want to tell you, I had the desire to go out and horsewhip these people," he complained," saying that "the idea that they would picket the site and blame the president for those casualties is an outrage." Koch also had some choice words for fellow Democrats who have attacked Bush over the war in Iraq. "Nobody wants [to see U.S.] casualties. But the fact that they were as minimal as this was miraculous," he contended, especially "when you had all the people like [Sen. Ted] Kennedy predicting thousands of body bags." Then, broadening his criticism to include other anti-war Democrats, Koch complained, "It's an outrage that they conduct themselves the way they are." The one-time top New York City Democrat then directed his fire toward the Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, telling Hannity, "I also consider Howard Dean to be McGovern II. I mean, that's the only way I can describe him." Koch said that the Democratic Party's left wing "hates not only the United States but it hates our ally, the state of Israel. And what Howard Dean is doing is appealing to that radical left." Last week Dean said that the U.S. should not "take sides" when Israel comes under attack by Palestinian terrorist factions. __________________ "Youth and Strength is no match for Age and Treachery"