"Pointedly on point
"Niederer on the moment she became an activist: Feb. 3, 2004 - the day Seth was killed. "Why the @#$**! are we there?" the unvarnished Brooklyn native barked at any reporter who called. "Mission accomplished? My kid is dead.""On Freedom of Information Act follies: Seth was either the 526th, 527th, 528th or 529th casualty on a list fast approaching 3,500. "We still don't know," she says, angrily. "Try getting any information out of our government."
"On being arrested at a Bush campaign rally after asking Laura Bush why her girls weren't serving. "The part I really resented was that they shot the images back to my son's platoon in Baghdad, like 'Here's your leader's crazy mother.' "
"On having no love for Democrats, either: "A bunch of cowards kowtowing to a dictator," she declares.
"On military recruiters: "The things they tell these kids to get them there and keep them there," Niederer says, firing off another round of expletives.
"It may be hard to believe, but Niederer has softened a bit since the birth of her grandson, Seth Aiden, 14 months ago. Still, like Bush, she remains on point on all points.
"I want these kids home. And I want them to be respected and taken care of when they're home.
"'And I don't want anyone to forget the fallen. Don't tell me $100,000 [the death benefit] is all a fallen soldier's life is worth."
"Niederer missed a chance to protest last week when Bush was at a legislative fund-raiser in Edison, N.J.
"She can't make them all - even activists have to work - but that's OK. After all this time in a war of words over the war, he already knows what she'd say.
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