Submitted by: kirkland on Friday November 17th, 2006 at 06:26 PM EST

Of all the unlikely casualties of the war in Iraq, the poor Dixie Chicks appear to have sacrificed their enormously successful career over an offhand remark in front of a London audience on the eve of the invasion.

As the extraordinary documentary by renowned filmmaker Barbara Kopple, "Shut Up and Sing," makes abundantly clear, the comment was not a slip of the tongue or a misunderstood piece of media garble. Dixie Chicks vocalist Natalie Maines meant what she said and she did not try to take it back, mitigate the damage or even back away from the sentiment. But then, she's no politician.

She also makes it clear in this astonishingly candid, intimate film that she doesn't think she has anything to apologize for, and sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, her two colleagues in the biggest-selling female vocal group of the modern era, back her up all the way.

» Full story @ SF Gate