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.

I agree with him - and you won't find anyone who dislikes Bush more than I.

But there's a time and a place for everything, and a 9/11 memorial service is neither the time nor the place.

Sounds like Koch is right on the money.

Re: Ed Koch: Bush Haters Should be 'Horsewhipped'
 

Koch is high!

You're right on the money here!
Couldn't have said it better.

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Heh, and I think Dean is high. His opinion about Israel is weak and just plain stupid to me.

I've always liked Ed Koch.

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You say that as if 'W's "ROAD MAP" was such a brilliant, thought-out, successful policy for the Middle East.

Koch is a DINOsaur, Democrat in name only. His statements sound like regurgitations of the collected works of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. He's a nobody and his opinion counts the same as other washed-up has-beens like Bill Clinton.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ed Koch: Bush Haters Should be 'Horsewhipped'
 

I didn't say that.
I think we need to be over their and use force, but I don't always agree with how things are being done. Although, I do believe, that in time, it will pay off.

I think my tax dollars shouldnt be spent on Israelis stealing land.

Israel hijack thread 0003!!!

Yeah, my angle was the "Horsewhipped" thing.