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After offending Christians in Africa, the United Kingdom and Europe, Russia and Australia with her Madonna-on-a-cross concert stunt, the rock star is working with NBC to reach the United States with a taping of her performance sometime this fall. But it will be over objections from the American Family Association, the nation's largest pro-family organization, which has launched a drive to send a million e-mails to the network expressing outrage. Donald E. Wildmon, the chairman of AFA, also wrote to NBC Chairman Robert Wright, asking him to cancel the scheduled November airing of Madonna's Confessions Tour concert. I write to...

MADONNA today compared US President George Bush to deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The 45-year-old pop star said the two men were "alike" because they both behaved "in an irresponsible manner". Madonna made the comments during an interview in which she tried to draw a line under her wild days, vowing to be "part of the order, not the chaos, of the world". Madonna's current Re-Invention tour carries a strong anti-war message and her recent video for the song American Life was clear in its opposition to the Iraq conflict. In the final scene of the video, a President Bush...