Flashback: The Dixie Chicks Are Ashamed of the President… Again

It's hard to overstate just how popular the Dixie Chicks were in 2003. With three major-label albums — Wide Open Spaces, Fly and Home — they'd become America's top-selling female group of all time, writing the soundtrack for pretty much everyone who listened to country music during the turn of the 21st century. They could play. They could sing. They could speak their minds. What wasn't to love?

During a European promo show for the group's 2003 Top of the World Tour, Natalie Maines took a minute to address the crowd. It was less than two weeks before the invasion of......