DIXIE CHICKS VS BUSH

In your face, Charlie Daniels and Toby Keith.

Dixie Chick Natalie Maines (the singer one with the fashionable very-blond hair) spoke out on Bush and Iraq during a recent London concert:

Reporting on a Chicks' concert, the Web site for the United Kingdom paper The Guardian said singer Natalie Maines (pictured, center) told the crowd, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

The singer's barb got the audience cheering, the Guardian said.

In a statement on the Chicks' Web site Wednesday, Maines said, "We've been overseas for several weeks and have been reading and following the news accounts of our government's position. The anti-American sentiment that has unfolded here is astounding."

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"I feel the president is ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world," Maines said in the statement. "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."

With this news, TFM is officially off the fence . . . that is, I no officially appreciate their cover of "Landslide".