The problem wasn't that they said what they said, so much as they did it behind their country's back. If they were in Dallas, and made that statement, and took how th3e audience reacted, at least they had the courage of what they believed in. But they said it in a foreign country wher ethey knew they'd get applause. Apparently, Natalie Maines was the girl in high school who went up to the girl who hated her sister and told her all the bad things about her sister she knew. Just for a few seconds of approval...
On the way UP the ladder, the chicks claimed to be "personal friends" of the then owner for the Texas Rangers. Who was the owner then? George W Bush. They would have the announcer introduce them as "presonal friends" to gain favor with HIS fan base. They would sit and watch ball games and eat hot dogs and chat it up with Geroge W Bush & Co. in HIS box seats. They even sang for one of his innagurations. Despite their short term memory loss, they kissed his butt so the people that liked him, would like them.
They played the same game in London but sat on the other side of the table this time.
Natalie Maines has always looked down her nose country music. She would say things like "Country music has no soul, I would rather be rock n roll." Well Daddy didnt have any ties in Rock N Roll and the only job he could get her was country. Since waitressing was becoming a real drag for her, she took it. And dont you think for a second she didnt kiss every REDneck conservative ass that came her way. She did indeed.
She is a liar and fraud and will say and do anything for cheap applause, including sellling out a "personal friend" that kept her ass from being an overweight waitress the rest of her life.