Posted on 06/02/2006 7:36:21 AM PDT by Pokey78
Country trio the Dixie Chicks are desperate to be asked to perform for US troops in Iraq in an effort to prove once and for all they're not unpatriotic.
Chicks singer Natalie Maines became a target of abuse and protest in 2003 after she publicly criticised President George W Bush for sending soldiers to Iraq.
And since the backlash, the Wide Open Spaces star has been nervous about meeting US troops - because she felt they'd dislike her for the comments she made three years ago.
But, after meeting sailors at Fleet Week in New York last week - and being treated like a star, Maines is keen to meet and perform for more servicemen and women.
She says: "I used to think they wouldn't want us to come (and perform) and I'd be embarrassed because I would think that they believed the rhetoric or whatever that we didn't support them.
"I realise it wouldn't be like that and it would be great."
Bandmate Emily Robison admits the group is just waiting for an invite to go out to Iraq and perform.
She adds: "If people wanted us to go, we'd gladly go."
Hey, ladies, everything is in walking distance if you got the time. Get!
If they really want to go to Iraq I suggest they volunteer for frontline duty against the insurgents.
Just go, and don't come back.
She says: "I used to think they wouldn't want us to come (and perform) and I'd be embarrassed because I would think that they believed the rhetoric or whatever that we didn't support them.
Like, duh!
"Dixie Chicks: 'Send us to Iraq'"
Great idea. The marines need comfort women and the "chicks" need to hook up with some real men.
Hey Toby Keith was just there, why didn't they go with him?
Oh yeah, that's a good idea - sending our troops a trio of back stabbing, marginally talented has beens.
They probably hope to be booed off the stage to raise anti-soldier sentiment.
You know, it's not just what they said about President Bush that bothers me. It's their overall attitude. Damn they make me sick.
(Bandmate Emily Robison admits the group is just waiting for an invite to go out to Iraq and perform.)
Who the he** is she waiting to invite her? I thought celebrities just volunteered.
On another note, I hope they all are holding their breath.
The word is "criticism." Call Nats a wahhhhhhmbulance.
Sales must be down. Dimmie Chicks looking for more headlines.
Who's stopping you? Go already. You don't need an invitation. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
I thought Islam didnt allow pork products?
How 'bout if some people want them to go..away. Wonder if they would do that as well?
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop telling us how damned patriotic you are and how you don't want to talk about "The Comment" anymore and just want to "leave country" and all the other useless crap rattling around your empty heads!
SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They want to go....Enlist.
I know I'd like them to go, but it's not Iraq were I would send them. LOL. I have in mind a place that is thousands of times hotter. Amen.
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