[pollwatcher]

I see FR doesn't welcome counter-punch links here, but you can go to Drudge to read it for yorself. Sue isn't just trying to gain sympathy, she is serious unstable. All the more reason to feature her at this profane, america-hating, Chompy-esque site.

[xm177e2]

He joined the army for money and skills that, he was told, would help land him a job with the CIA or FBI -- his dream jobs. "Not for patriotism," said his mother, Sue Niederer, who is now an anti-war activist.

I wonder why he wanted to work at the CIA or FBI. Patriotism, perchance?

[EggsAckley]

I'm fairly confident that Sue will be scrutinized no matter where she goes or what she does, probably for the rest of her life.

I agree that she's at the very least unstable, and perhaps even psychotic.

[sevry]

Sue isn't just trying to gain sympathy, she is serious unstable.

There is always a problem with command indifference, even in a hot war. But it does not help anyone to deal with such problems if the one complaining about it is seen as a nutcase. Two different issues.

[demnomo]

And then this horrid woman has the gaul to mention sending supplies and sundries to the troops to "keep up their morale..." Hmmm. I guess advocating violence towards the Commander in Chief and claiming that when your son joined the Army, he was guaranteed he would never be in combat really lifts the morale of our troops--NOT!

This woman is crazy. I wonder what kind of mother she really was?

[gilliam]

This is the Democrat's and Communist's anti-war poster mother. She is quoted all the time, was in Michael Moore's movie if I am not mistaken.

[netmilsmom]

A poster from another thread stated that her son joined the military when she and her hubby would not pay for his college.
She has cracked from the guilt.
I'm not sure I would not as well, but my family would be smart enough to get me to a psych ward for some treatment.

[backhoe]

This woman is a professional Bush-hater & agitator:

 Woman wearing 'President Bush You Killed My Son' T-Shirt disrupts first lady's rally  This woman, Sue Niederer, is the same person who confronted Rr. Raoul on one of his Freeps.
Check it out:
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11197951&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=8 Niederer is supposedly a friend of Code Pink, the virulent anti-American group who promotes socialist-communist causes.

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search

 Interviews with her via mega LW groups
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000585.php

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15399.php

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/nothing-12feb04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-02.htm

 Sorry. If America is going to suceed in the War on Terror then we need to be as resolved as we were in the Civil War or WWII, perhaps more so.

This kind of disgusting public display is unacceptable. I don't care if it makes her feel better, or helps her deal with her grief or whatever other kind of psychobabble we can associate with it.

The War on Terror is not about assuaging her feelings - it's about saving our country from savages trying to destroy it.

 This woman has been doing this type of thing in connection with various left wing groups since at least March, when I saw her (and fellow freeper Dr. Raoul confronted her) at a March in Dover, DE sponsored by Military Families Speak Out, Sept 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, and ANSWER.
March Thread

[wildcatf4f3]

I was struck by her, we deserve everything he (Bush) does to us attitude. US deserved to be attacked, we deserve to suffer---I'm not driving in a car with these people.

[Names Ash Housewares]

How many stories about lost ones families proudly talking about their lost family member with pride? How many families has Bush met with personally? Where they were concerned for him too? This person suffered a great loss. I honor her lost son. We will never forget them. She doesnt understand that all the freedom she enjoys, to say the things she is saying even as horrible as they are, are because of people like her son. I hope some day she will understand. Thats all I can do. She has a right to say whatever she wants.

[NavyCaptain]

Unfortunately, Seth is probably terribly embarrassed by his mother there in warrior Heaven. If she just realized how she is ruining his wonderful legacy!

[ApesForEvolution]

What an article. What a pathetic lot of Americans we have raised up now, spanning decades...more good than bad, but only by a very fine hair...

[navygal]

She should of went to see the recruiter with her son. When we enlist, we enlist or re-enlist with the possibility of going to war. During a war some of us come back and some of us do not. I feel sorry for her loss,but her son gave the ultimate sacrifice and she needs to let it go.

[thegreatbeast]

It's supposed to be off-limits to criticize a bereft mother but this is beyond the pale. She has no license to speak this way.

[workerbee]

Here is a man who died in war, so I don't want to take his mother's word that he was as much a naive spoiled brat as she makes him out to be.

He was in debt. If you're looking for me to say patriotism, I'm not. They [the Army] offer you the world. They give you signing bonuses. Give you college, upfront money, health insurance ­ [recruiters are] great salesmen.

Lady, your son was 24 years old. He was old enough to make a decision about enlisting. He was old enough to understand that being in the military isn't just about what goodies you can get from Uncle Sam. Unless you raised him to be naive enough to thinking enlisting during wartime didn't mean the possibility of going to a war zone, I doubt he was nearly as clueless as you make him out to be.

[ecurbh]

Cut to colonel's office. Colonel is seated at desk.

Colonel	Come in, what do you want?
	Private Watkins enters and salutes.
Watkins	I'd like to leave the army please, sir.
Colonel	Good heavens man, why?
Watkins	It's dangerous.
Colonel	What?
Watkins	There are people with guns out there, sir.
Colonel	What?
Watkins	Real guns, sir. Not toy ones, sir. Proper ones, sir. They've all got 'em. All of 'em, sir. And some of 'em have got tanks.
Colonel	Watkins, they are on our side.
Watkins	And grenades, sir. And machine guns, sir. So I'd like to leave, sir, before I get killed, please.
Colonel	Watkins, you've only been in the army a day.
Watkins	I know sir but people get killed, properly dead, sir, no barley cross fingers, sir. A bloke was telling me, if you're in the army and there's a war you have to go and fight.
Colonel	That's true.
Watkins	Well I mean, blimey, I mean if it was a big war somebody could be hurt.
Colonel	Watkins why did you join the army?
Watkins	For the water-skiing and for the travel, sir. And not for the killing, sir. I asked them to put it on my form, sir - no killing.
Colonel	Watkins are you a pacifist?
Watkins	No sir, I'm not a pacifist, sir. I'm a coward.
Colonel	That's a very silly line. Sit down.

[AQGeiger]

The only way for one to guarantee that he will never see combat is to stay out of the Army.

[olde north church]

I'm presuming this young soldier was Jewish. He died performing a mitzvah. It was done in country that wouldn't have welcomed him a visitor and would have made him a target for violence in the land where Abram, his ancestor was born. That made his actions all the more blessed and his death all the more tragic.

[hometoroost]

I get so tired of this "I didn't join the army to be a soldier" talk. If you join the army there is a chance that at some point you could be somewhere where someone will try to kill you.

If you want skills and money for college without the risk - get a job.

[Sub-Driver]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217913/posts

[JoeSixPack1]

Oh, she's not only unstable, she's the winner of the

ULTIMATE VICTIM award.

I have no doubt that her kid joined the military to get the hell away from HER!!