While opinion worldwide was overwhelmingly against the Iraq War, the majority of Americans weren't just pro-war - they were shocked and offended at the mere idea of not supporting the president. She challenged a worldview that many Americans held dear if people were offended by her comments about the war and being ashamed to share a home state with President Bush, it’s because they took her comments as a personal affront. With the exception of certain usual antiwar suspects like Sean Penn, back then, Maines still spoke for a minority of Americans, and an extreme minority of country musicians, who had all but created a subgenre of post-9/11 anthems. That at the time, we weren’t living with a decade and a half of hindsight, but instead in a world where one antiwar comment could derail the careers of the best-selling all-female band in US history. I say "frustrating" because it seems like many people, not just presidential candidates and political commentators, have forgotten how American patriotism surged in the months following 9/11, and how immediately terrified the majority became of political dissent. Indeed, one of the more frustrating topics of 2016's unusually frustrating election cycle concerned who did, thought, or said what about the i nvasion of Iraq between late 2002 and early 2003. "I get banned for not liking Bush and now Trump can practically put a hit out on Hillary and he's still all over country radio!" she wrote on Twitter last August.
Thirteen years after that controversial incident, the now-former head Dixie Chick would express incredulity that Donald Trump could insinuate that "Second Amendment people" could possibly "stop" Hillary Clinton and incur relatively little blowback from the same people who once boycotted her band. The band’s audience back home did not, and almost as quickly as you can drape a "Mission Accomplished" banner on an aircraft carrier, the Dixie Chicks’ white-hot career was irreversibly damaged. And we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas." The locals howled and clapped in solidarity. It was the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, and Maines spoke directly on the subject looming in everyone’s mind: "Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all," Maines said. On March 10, 2003, during a London stop on a worldwide tour, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines addressed the crowd.
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