Dixie Chicks
GOVT 2305
10/26/2010
Dixie Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice
The Dixie Chicks are a country music band, currently comprised of Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and lead singer Natalie Maines. The band formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, and performed bluegrass and country music, bused and toured the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years. The Dixie Chicks achieved massive country music and pop success, beginning in 1998 with hit songs like "Wide Open Spaces", "Cowboy Take Me Away", and "Long Time Gone". The Dixie Chicks also became well known for their independent spirit and controversial comments on subjects such as war and politics. On the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial U.S. jet liners were high jacked by al-Qaeda terrorists and three of them hit targets, the World Trade Center (Twin Towers) in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Over 3,000 victims and 19 high-jackers died in the attacks. A campaign was launched in 2001 with the invasion of Afghanistan in response to these attacks with a particular focus on militant Islamists and al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Somehow over the course of the next year and a half, Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein became the target of President George W. Bush and administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. According to some reports, these officials made hundreds of false statements following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the myth of “weapons of mass destruction” in order to justify launching an attack of Iraq on March 20, 2003. Regardless of hundreds of anti-war protests throughout the U.S. (one of which I attended here in Austin) and protests abroad, the U.S. Administration turned a deaf ear. The U.S. invasion of Iraq was about to begin in spite of these frustrated worldwide objections
10/26/2010
Dixie Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice
The Dixie Chicks are a country music band, currently comprised of Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and lead singer Natalie Maines. The band formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, and performed bluegrass and country music, bused and toured the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years. The Dixie Chicks achieved massive country music and pop success, beginning in 1998 with hit songs like "Wide Open Spaces", "Cowboy Take Me Away", and "Long Time Gone". The Dixie Chicks also became well known for their independent spirit and controversial comments on subjects such as war and politics. On the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial U.S. jet liners were high jacked by al-Qaeda terrorists and three of them hit targets, the World Trade Center (Twin Towers) in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Over 3,000 victims and 19 high-jackers died in the attacks. A campaign was launched in 2001 with the invasion of Afghanistan in response to these attacks with a particular focus on militant Islamists and al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Somehow over the course of the next year and a half, Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein became the target of President George W. Bush and administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. According to some reports, these officials made hundreds of false statements following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the myth of “weapons of mass destruction” in order to justify launching an attack of Iraq on March 20, 2003. Regardless of hundreds of anti-war protests throughout the U.S. (one of which I attended here in Austin) and protests abroad, the U.S. Administration turned a deaf ear. The U.S. invasion of Iraq was about to begin in spite of these frustrated worldwide objections