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Donald Trump is getting celebrated for saying the same thing that ruined the Dixie Chicks
Salon ^ | 2/17/16 | AMANDA MARCOTTE

Posted on 02/22/2016 9:59:41 AM PST by justlittleoleme

In July of 2003, the Dixie Chicks, a platinum-selling Texas-based country band, was playing a show in England when lead singer Natalie Maines decided to address the contentious debate over whether or not the United States should invade Iraq. “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all,” Maines told the London audience. "We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas."

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The whole incident is worth recounting because here we are, almost 13 years later, and the lead in the Republican primary race, Donald Trump, is saying far more incendiary things about both George W. Bush and the Iraq War than Maines did, and not only is not hurting him in the polls, but may even be helping him.

During the CBS debate in South Carolina, Trump openly accused Bush of lying about Saddam Hussein concealing weapons of mass destruction to get us into Iraq. He's since softened a little, saying, "I don't know if he lied or not," but “there are no weapons of mass destruction." What's astounding about all this is that Trump is basically right, something that almost never happens, even when it comes to his own historical record of opinions on the war.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: South Carolina
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To: justlittleoleme

Well, Trump is different because (insert rationalization)!


41 posted on 02/22/2016 10:30:32 AM PST by Nickname
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To: justlittleoleme

Just a reminder: it was Amanda Marcotte who wrote a piece that denied the Virgin Conception of Christ in a most hateful and distasteful way. I want to be there when the King of Kings asks her about it.


42 posted on 02/22/2016 10:31:32 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: justlittleoleme

...and Trump will win in November. Suck it, Salon.


43 posted on 02/22/2016 10:35:43 AM PST by simpson96
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To: MNJohnnie

Even Rush has succumbed to DTDS as he was just squawking how he thinks and he thinks Trump supporters think that Trump could open that Apple 5C the FBI wants into:-) I’m lov’n it!


44 posted on 02/22/2016 10:35:56 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: stocksthatgoup
Comments like this win over so many Trump supporters.

It's POTUS election season. The Typical fact & data based intelligent discussion that is usually laced with logic and reason is on vacation. There will be no talk of records, pasts, character, reason, conservative credentials or the Constitution. Only fringe emotional character assassination will do until 2017.

It feels like an intellectual level only found in the depths of DU around here when arguing between Cruz and Trump.

45 posted on 02/22/2016 10:36:04 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Don’t you get it? We don’t care about Trump’s past! We care about our/America’s Future!


46 posted on 02/22/2016 10:37:57 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: Harpotoo

Don’t you get it? Trump will say ANYTHING to get your vote whether he believes it or not!


47 posted on 02/22/2016 10:46:45 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: GraceG
Trump's opponents amusing their Open Borders keepers dancing monkeys photo: monkeys monkeydance.gif
48 posted on 02/22/2016 10:51:22 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Keep in mind that the author was at one time Silky Pony’s slander-monkey.


49 posted on 02/22/2016 10:54:17 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Fact is, there were WMDs in Iraq.


50 posted on 02/22/2016 11:02:20 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Concern Trolls Alert!


51 posted on 02/22/2016 11:04:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Unfortunately for those who hate the idea of trump getting in conservatism has taken a back seat to saving the country in this race. If Ted Cruz had the economic savvy and immigration sense trump has to fix these insurmountable problems and the playground fight instinct trump has necessary to beat Hillary it would be better

But he doesn’t

So there


52 posted on 02/22/2016 11:08:06 AM PST by stanne
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To: MNJohnnie
Trump wasn't standing on a stage in London saying he was ashamed of his country.

Actually, Maines said she's ashamed that her president was from Texas. She said plenty more about Bush. Yes, she did it on a foreign stage . . . but it did spill over into other appearances. Trump is saying plenty about Bush and the war and he's doing it right here in America.

53 posted on 02/22/2016 11:08:31 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: KyCats
Good to see the far left acknowledge that we totally ruined the Dixie Chicks over their treason. Usually they try to deny it.

Totally ruined as a supergroup and put out of commission for a long time but they are now back together and touring the US again. They were just in our area playing at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater while in their heyday it would have playing one of the arenas in Atlanta.

54 posted on 02/22/2016 11:12:40 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: justlittleoleme

Maines et al are just entertainers; people pay to hear them sing and generally feel cheated when they use up that singing time pouring forth their meaningless brain droppings. Trump, and other candidates, is in the business of letting us know what’s on his mind. However, if he used up that time to start singing...

Simple question: If it came down to Maines vs Trump, who would it be?


55 posted on 02/22/2016 11:15:51 AM PST by DPMD
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To: MNJohnnie
"Completely false analogy. Trump wasn’t standing on a stage in London saying he was ashamed of his country."

Absolutely correct. It's too much to hope for we'd get an apples to apples comparison.

56 posted on 02/22/2016 11:37:24 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Well once he’s in office the TRUTH will be revealed now won’t it? I’m willing and vote able to give him a chance. And if you folks are right that he is the Rep obama then Trump will undo all that o has done and wouldn’t that be grand:-)


57 posted on 02/22/2016 11:37:39 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: sparklite2

Get on the bus, Gus,

Make a new key, Lee....


58 posted on 02/22/2016 12:15:29 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: MarvinStinson
>>> Who are the retards in that photo?

Code Pink and their leader Medea Benjamin (Right).

59 posted on 02/22/2016 1:22:47 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: MarvinStinson
"Code Pink lauds Donald Trump..."
60 posted on 02/22/2016 1:26:01 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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