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"I just sent the following to the Lubbock radio station that is seeking E-mails about this incident."

A music career is a hard thing to build. It is even harder to achieve super stardom, as the Chix have. It takes much longer to earn the right to lead a nation or to conduct its foreign policy.

Can you imagine George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice starting a singing career? Would anyone listen? Will anyone continue to listen to the Dixie Chicks?

The surge of opposition on the public message board caused the webmaster to take it off the main site and post a message from the Dixie Chicks that read:

“We've been overseas for several weeks and have been reading and following the news accounts of our governments' position. The anti-American sentiment that has unfolded here is astounding. While we support our troops, there is nothing more frightening than the notion of going to war with Iraq and the prospect of all the innocent lives that will be lost.”

And a statement from Natalie Maines: “I feel the President is ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.”