Woman arrested after interrupting Laura Bush speech

Dom

HAMILTON, N.J. (AP) — A woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of a soldier killed in Iraq was detained Thursday after she interrupted a campaign speech by First lady Laura Bush.

Police escorted Sue Niederer of Hopewell, N.J., from a rally at a firehouse after she demanded to know why her son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, was killed in Iraq. Dvorin died in February while trying to disarm a bomb.

As shouts of "Four More Years" subsided, Niederer, standing in the middle of a crowd of some 700, continued to shout about the killing of her son. Secret Service and local police escorted her out of the event, handcuffed her and placed her in the back of a police van.

Niederer was later charged with defiant trespass and released.

The first lady continued speaking, touting her husband's record on the economy, health care and the war on terror to those attending the rally in this suburban community of 90,000 people near Trenton.

Mrs. Bush made several references to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks during her speech. She said that many in New Jersey, including some in neighborhoods near the firehouse, lost family members that day.

"Too many people here had a loved one that went to work in New York that day," Bush said. "It's for our country, it's for our children, our grandchildren that we do the hard work of confronting terror."

http://www.usatoday.com/

digerati

No one forced him to sign that dotted line, you sign up for the benefits, you take the risk. I was very close to signing that dotted line, and I knew the possible outcomes.

Dom

To what are you reffering?

Sandok

ahhhh the joys of getting arrested for nothing

ToshiroOC

Joining the military, I would guess.

Dom

Ah, okay.

But perhaps her son died for nothing...which evidently he did. The war was because of WMDs, there were none. There's a difference between dying for a cause and dying for no reason.

A quote comes to mind, not sure how it went but it was something along the lines of: We will fight in wars. We only ask that you don't send us to fight for nothing.

The_Neon_Cowboy

the war as over....

#1. WMD's, substanteated:
He had a small amount weapons he sould have not had (by un sanction), materials, also he had duel use supplies and equipment, the will and the want to gain WMD. To date only a verry small amount of WMD was found. The contry none the less was loaded with chemial suits, and enough weapoms to arm every man worman and child with a RPG, little lone guns! Saddam sought to aquire WMD and if gained them had allreadly clamined he would use them. He also calmed to his neighbors that he had WMD. Foerign intelligece said he had WMD. For all we know he had WMD and just shiped it out to another country... like seria or iran. etc

#2. Terror, substanteated:
Terriost training camps, connections to al-quida, $$$ going to al quida, top alqudia leaders based in IRAQ. etc

#3. Freedom, substanteated:
the opressed, tortured people, massicured, slugterd by a brutal dictator

#4. UN Compliance, substanteated:
non-complaince with un resoultions, un failing to act due a few of it's members garenteeing a veto. To protect thier own special intrests, multi million dallor deals, and massive debts iraq owes then, that plus thier dependance on iqaqy oil. then add to that the oil for food scandle

Dom

No WMDs were found. Show me your source.

Attacking a country because they may want WMDs is not a reason for war. Plenty of countries want them.

Chemical suits prove nothing; they might have been kept after the UN dismantled Iraq’s WMD capabilities after the first Gulf War.

Having enough weapons to arm a county’s people is no crime. The US has enough weapons to arm its entire people, should we bomb ourselves?

You do not know that any WMD were shipped out of Iraq. There's about as much proof of that as there is proof that Iraq currently has WMD.

If the US were really concerned about WMDs why did they not attack N. Korea first? We know they have weapons, we knew before the Iraq war.Again, where's your source? No connections have been found between Iraq and al Quaeda.There are A LOT of countries without freedom. That is not an excuse.The UN had special interests? You mean like the Bush's interests in making from the war?

The UN depends on Iraqi oil? So does the US.

MythicaL

I saw news that they let her go...

BMG_Cya=-

Saddam was in non-compliance with several UN resolutions. That was the main reason for the war...not WMD's. Why do all the US haters and liberals always forget that? It's like a plague.

The_Neon_Cowboy

To add to that do you think he had WMD in say desert storm?

Dom

Neon, until you offer proof of what you are talking about, there is no point in discussing what you are claiming.

Dom

LOL. Yeah, okay.

OldBuzzard

Neon....two points:

1. Can you find some other color than RED ?? I use the default color scheme, and it's damned hard to read...especially if you are an old fart like me


2. You really can't argue with/persuade a liberal because they will never let FACTS interfere with their feelings/emotions.

Dom

LOL. I accept facts as fact only when proven.

HawK

Personally I think the Woman had every right to protest, for Bush never needed to go to war, he just needed more popularity to get re-elected, and for that reason, and for the weapons industry gains, your boys have to die..
They are sacrificing your children for their personal gain!!
which is the lowest.. (for any "side") but has been used for ages..High time people are start to realise that fact.
But sometimes I think that they are better of dead than wounded, for noone cares a bit about them, their life ruined, left alone with sometimes a pension; to small to live on and to big to die from.. while the "white collars" use that kind of money in an hour.
Time for these "big boy's" start fighting their own battles using their own children instead of sacrificing other peoples children...

digerati

No one forces them to enlist. If it was a draft, then it'd be different.

Dom

Perhaps her son was in the National Guard? There has been mention of a so-called "backdoor draft". Is there any validity in that claim? I'm not aware of what National Guard duties entail, do they require you to go to war?

ToshiroOC

What if he was a stoplossed officer?

HawK

That is a bit shortsighted don't you think, being prepared to defend your country
is another thing then screw up someone elses country (for whatever reason)
because someone need to be re-elected, or worse to make profit, and then leave the country after it's been wrecked,
so you can come back again when it's election time again..or any other reason
the USA does seem to have a habbit of leaving them in a mess. as history has proven..
..Korea,Vietnam, Afghanistan, Irak, and some more Country's

And how many enlisted are really old enough to realise what war is all about,
has anyone really prepared them to the sight of seeing your buddies cry or die??
thinking war is a computer game, just reload and try again? and that still is not a reason to Kill them for someones monetary profit.. 'couse that is what it's all about.

bug77

Jeez guyz... I'm from Romania. We had Ceausescu over here until 1989. And while his regime was nowhere near Saddam as cruelty, 90% of the population would have been glad if US would invade Romania in order to rid us of that regime.
As for Kerry, I have yet to see a leftist doing something else than telling the masses what they want to hear.

kp59583

For one thing when you say I do to enlistment its with the understanding that you may have to give your life for your country whether its a popular war or not. Anyone who or there family that does not understand this is a fool. I was in the military and understood it and my son's in the military and understands it. He volunteered for Iraq. He's home now.

kp59583

National Guard units have been in every major war weve had.

kp59583

The Guard doubled the size of the Regular Army when it was mobilized in 1940, more than a year before Pearl Harbor, and contributed 19 divisions to that war, as well as numerous other units including Guard aviation squadrons. More than 138,000 Guardsmen were mobilized for Korea, followed by numerous smaller mobilizations for the Berlin Crisis, Vietnam, and numerous strikes and riots at home. Approximately 63,000 Army Guardsmen were called to serve in Desert Storm, and in the decade since then Guardsmen have seen a greater role than ever before -- conducting peacekeeping in Somalia, Haiti, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, more than 50,000 Guardsmen were called up by both their States and the Federal government to provide security at home and combat terrorism abroad.