President Bush Pictured Kissing Cindy Sheehan

Blogs for Bush blogged Gee, wonder why she had the picture removed from the family web site and is now only available in a cached Google version.

Read her open letter (scroll down) on the family web site, to President Bush that the picture was removed from.

I tried using the Wayback Machine, but it just shows that the previous page was up there on Oct 10, 2004, and for some reason the page was not indexed by the Wayback Machine

This seems to disprove her new version of her first meeting President Bush. Her current version of what happened when she first met President Bush was that he acted "like it was a party" and kept changing the subject whenever her son came up in conversation. It seems to me (and I'm sure any reasonable person) that if that version was true, this photo of President Bush kissing Cindy Sheehan would never have happened... certainly her original version of the story would have never been made... This picture of Bush kissing her gives credence to the original version, not the post-MoveOn.Org version.

In the original version we see "I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis," Cindy said after their meeting. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith The meeting didn't last long, but in their time with Bush, Cindy spoke about Casey and asked the president to make her son's sacrifice count for something. They also spoke of their faith. While meeting with Bush, as well as Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, was an honor, it was almost a tangent benefit of the trip. The Sheehans said they enjoyed meeting the other families of fallen soldiers, sharing stories, contact information, grief and support. For some, grief was still visceral and raw, while for others it had melted into the background of their lives, the pain as common as breathing. Cindy said she saw her reflection in the troubled eyes of each. "It's hard to lose a son," she said. "But we (all) lost a son in the Iraqi war." The trip had one benefit that none of the Sheehans expected. For a moment, life returned to the way it was before Casey died. They laughed, joked and bickered playfully as they briefly toured Seattle. For the first time in 11 weeks, they felt whole again. "That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together," Cindy said. "