In a democratic country people have their right to express their minds. Especially in the USA, people have the right guaranteed by The First Amendment to criticise government or to protest their policies. Possibly, Dixie Chicks’ criticism against Bush’s attention to make the war with Iraq derived from their awareness of the following consequences of the war to their country. Not because they didn’t love their country. I think if the criticism was made when the country was in peaceful state it shouldn’t have been a severe boycott like this. It was just because, after 9/11 USA was in the state of patriotic; people had faith in their president and his cabinet that they would do the best for the country interest. President is the signal of the country, protesting their president’s decision was interpreted as not being in the same side of the country. Therefore I think, people who reacted negatively to the Dixie Chicks’ comments, were being too nationalistic. Nationalism doesn’t mean everyone have to agree with everything their leader do or decide. They might support their leader only when he/she do appropriateness. Nationalism doesn’t mean everyone have to think or do identically. No one could monopolise patriotism. The article said there were some other people protested too but didn’t say whether they had been threatened or not. If not; better trace back what really happened. Was the Dixie Chicks case really caused by Nationalism?