DIXIE SPIN

The Dixie Chicks are coming to ABC to chat with Diane Sawyer. Drudge already has the highlights, which don't read as anything helpful to the DCs' cause:

SAWYER: Are you ashamed that the President is from your state?

MAINES: No.. I'm not truly embarrassed that you know President Bush is from my state, that's not really what I care about. It was the wrong wording with genuine emotion and questions and concern behind it…

MAGUIRE: I felt like there was a lack of compassion every time I saw Bush talking about this. I honestly felt a lack of compassion. And I realized ...

SAWYER: For whom? For ... ?

MAGUIRE: …for me…for people that are questioning this, for the people that are about to die for this on both sides…

Let me interrupt here for a second. Bush showed a lack of compassion? For people who questioned the war? Might it matter a bit that those "questioning" the war often compared Mr. Bush to Hitler? That they couldn't condemn him strongly enough, yet could barely muster a whimper against Saddam Hussein? Why wasn't Miss Maines ashamed of them? Anyway...

ON THE WAR:

MAINES: …I just personally felt like why tomorrow? It's not that I don't ever want you to go over there. It's not that I don't ever want you to clean things up and fix things. It's just why can't we find the chemical weapons first…why not tomorrow?

Or the next day...or the day after that...? Because, perhaps, possibly, maybe, Saddam Hussein was going to hide those weapons until he saw a chance to use them. And maybe the UN's inspection regime was doomed by its own unseriousness and Saddam's tendency to lie from the start, rendering the whole process moot. Perhaps.