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What were the Dixie Chicks protesting in their song "Not Ready To Make Nice"?

I was listening to the song and I looked it up but I can't seem to find the plain and simple reason behind the song. Please help (:

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1. It directly addressed the political controversy that had surrounded the group for the past three years and, in criticism of the death threats the women received, as well as a response to a protesting woman in their documentary telling her small child to say "screw 'em".
2. I,Personaly,thought it was for Bush and the controversey they had. When Natalie said in a show "To bad he's from Texas."
3. They had a lot of negative publicity when on stage they denounced then President George W Bush. A lot of fans protested and some radio stations stopped playing their songs. In the song " Not ready to make nice " they were making a statement that they believed in what they said on stage and they weren't going to back down because of public controversy ...........KB
4. well a few years back, the Dixie Chicks had a concert in Europe somewhere and the lead singer made the comment that, "They are Ashamed that George Bush is from their home state of Texas". This caused an uproar because at this point, there were a not a whole lot of people speaking out against our Commander in Chief. Especially in the uber-conservative world of country music... If that was not enough, the Dixie Chicks then started attacking other country stars such as Toby Keith that were outspoken conservatives. Natalie Maines even wore a TSHIRT on a red carpet of an awards show that said "F.U.T.K" which they said meant something else but one knew that it was an attack on Toby Keith. Then they went on to say that they were "Ahamed to be in the country music genre" and they dont even like country music. Basically they just kept digging themselves deeper and deeper into a hole and people across the country did not like that or what the Dixie Chicks stood for. there were CD burning (like fire burning) parties across the country and they even recieved death threats. (the lyrics "shut up and sing or my life will be over" appear in the song and was a true story). The song was pretty much saying that they dont even care about all the flack they were getting for being so outspoken and they dont regret anything they said.. . of course all of the idiot liberals in the non-country genres voted for the Dixie Chicks on all he grammy award ballots. ...i hate Hollywood....ugh.But its been a while since they've appeared on any country music shows :)
5. Basically a back handed comment on their country fans and country radio who dropped them for their (at that time) what was constructed as Anti-Bush sentiment when he was very popular. That and the fact Natalie opened her mouth in England instead of voicing her concerns here. Many stations in the American Heartland and South still won't play the Dixie Chicks to this day. Mainly areas that are conservative or voted republican in the last presidential election http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_ready_to_make_nice
6. Right on chiks !!! F ameriKKKa