The Dixie Chicks have faced enough rejection and it needs to stop.

People, as well as the music industry, need to get over the comment that was made on the eve of the Iraq war in 2003 by Natalie Maines when she stated, “Just to tell you all know we are ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”

It’s more than four years later and you tell me was she right when she said not only was she ashamed but that the Iraq war was a mistake to begin with.

Sure, the American public can hold anti-war protests and say that the troops should be brought home now. But look at what is happening.

No matter what you do, no matter how much you say it, President Bush will not listen.

Oh, but sure when a music star like Maines has something negative to say about the president, that’s when all of the attention is drawn to her.

Answer me this, then why do we have the first amendment written in black and white in the U.S. Constitution?

Again, let me repeat myself if I didn’t make it clear the only thing that Maines did was express herself through the first amendment and all of the death threats, shunning my country radio station and fans boycotting that followed afterward is just a poor excuse.

Maines was right about the war itself. I mean just look at President Bush’s approval ratings. Every time he opens his mouth it breathes hot air.

He needs to focus on taking an English course because he keeps mispronouncing the word Vietnam. That’s not the only word that is mispronounced. Pay close attention to the word nuclear being said by our esteemed president. And you thought that the accent that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has it bad.

Can someone please get Bush an English teacher?

Maines could have gone as far as saying that not only was she ashamed of President Bush for being from Texas but that he needs to work on his language skills. Bush does he just doesn’t want to admit to the public.

It makes me want to investigate how a seemingly okay looking President got as far as he has. It has been said that when Bush had ambitions to run for the Oval Office that when he told his parents, they laughed at him.

I believe that. Despite Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky when his presidency was the center of attention makes it looks like a speck on the wall.

It really does. Imagine this headline for the newspapers, “President Bush in need of English lessons.”

I say again Maines was not the one at fault for targeting him in the first place. She was actually doing a service to the American people.

Her instincts were right and now even before the Iraq war started, all that is left is for the public, that includes the Country Music Awards and all of the music industry, to get off her back.

Look at it this way, if we decide that we wanted to express ourselves with our mouth, how can we do that if we were born without one?