A retired general and members of the general public in Shreveport-Bossier City have had a strong reaction to the airstrike that killed an Iranian general in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.

And it’s generally widespread support for the U.S. action.

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Cole said the attack sent a clear signal “... that we’re not going to put up with that anymore. We’re too much of a power to cower and be afraid of a country like Iran.”

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“I’m just glad that we have a strong commander-in-chief that will let our military do what they do best. And that’s protect the USA and its interests,” said Randall Kennington, a regular at Cafe USA.

Using a 33,000-pound tractor to obliterate compact discs and other items, a few hundred protesters in Bossier City, La., referring to themselves as backers of U.S. President George Bush and Barksdale Air Force Base, lashed back at Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Texas-based country act the Dixie Chicks, over a recent comment.

Maines reportedly told a London audience last week, in reference to Bush's push for military action against Iraq, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

The protesters Saturday night in Bossier City were largely country music fans, some of them recent fans of the Dixie Chicks. "Until they made that statement, I was glad to listen to them," said Rusty Sullivan, adding that his company has been flooded with requests to strip Dixie Chicks songs from the jukeboxes it operates.

Radio stations nationwide are boycotting the Dixie Chicks, even though Maines publicly apologized for her statement in London. In Kansas City, Mo., WDAF-AM set trashcans outside its offices for listeners to toss their Dixie Chicks CDs. Its Web site displayed more than 800 listener E-mails, most of them in support of the station's boycott.

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