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New Jersey woman’s son died in Iraq trying to defuse a bomb
HAMILTON, N.J. ? 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 firehall after she demanded to know why her son, 1st Lieut. 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.
Laura Bush 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.
She made several references to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and noted that many in New Jersey, including some in neighbourhoods near the firehall, 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."
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23 September 2004, 02:56
bush cares nothing about the boys and girls he has killed in iraqi . laura bush wouldn’t even recognize the mother , and then to have her arrested. apparently only the rich have free speech.