D.C. Peaceniks: Bush More 'Evil' Than Saddam

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D.C. Peaceniks: Bush More 'Evil' Than Saddam

Anti-war protesters rallying in Washington, D.C. Saturday say President Bush is more 'evil' than Axis of Evil kingpin Saddam Hussein, the man who's likely to become the target of imminent U.S. military action in coming weeks.

Though the crowd made their extreme anti-Bush and anti-American feelings amply apparent as they gathered on the Capitol Mall early Saturday morning, most of the uglier sentiments were being filtered out by reporters and news editors intent on giving a sanitized version of the event.

But WABC Radio's Curtis Sliwa, in a live report from the scene just minutes after the proceedings got underway, pulled no punches:

"I saw them falling out of their buses," Sliwa told his radio colleague John Gambling. "They were taking out their signs - 'Bush is the Evil One' and 'There's a Terrorist Behind Every Bush.' Out of the maybe a-hundred-and-twenty signs that I saw.... (there wasn't) one pejorative placard demeaning Saddam Hussein.'"

Sliwa said he interviewed nearly fifty of the anti-war protesters, reporting that "about ten actually said, 'Oh yeah, George Bush and Bush 41, his father, are far more evil - because they have more control geopolitically and they've killed far more people than Saddam Hussein."

The radio host ending up decamping amidst the "Patriots Rally" counter demonstration , which the establishment press has decided to ignore. But he pledged, "When I join the anti-American protesters to report on Monday when I'm back behind the microphone, I'm gonna count how many Hezbollah flags there are, Islamic Jihad flags, how many Palestinian flags, how many Iraqi flags."

He said he'd also keep an eye out for North Korean flags, which generally aren't available for sale in the U.S. "Maybe they knit them like Betsey Ross, just to show their support for 'Kim Jong Mentally Ill' over there in North Korea," the radio host offered.

Asked if he saw any 1960s vintage VW buses - the preferred mode of travel for anti-war protesters during Vietnam - Sliwa said, "No, in fact, hypocrites that they are.... quite a few of these so-called progressives and liberals were coming in their SUVs with big signs, 'No War for Oil.'"