Elton attacks 'censorship' in US

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http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/21/lkl.00.html

KING: That's Toby Keith with -- now, Willie Nelson and you do not share the same politics.

KEITH: No.

KING: Willie Nelson is a very, very liberal guy.

KEITH: Yes.

KING: And you could be called on the conservative end.

KEITH: Yes.
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CALLER: Don't you think it's a shame when you -- when some of your material kind of gets censored by the government? Like what happened to you and the Dixie Chicks?

KEITH: Yeah, I don't think I was censored by the government.

KING: No one censored you.

KEITH: And Pete Jennings, Pete Jennings isn't running for any office, is he?
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KING: What do you make over the argument about Iraq? It's obviously going to be big in the campaign.

KEITH: You know, I don't know. My stance on that has always been, I knew we were going into Afghanistan, no way around it. Without the Afghanistan country just turning over the Taliban and Osama and everybody to us, I knew there was going to be some conflict there, so I always feel for the troops and their families when they're going in.

And again, knowing their going into Iraq. It's not -- I've never had an opinion on it. I don't think that I'm supposed to have an opinion. I thought we were supposed to be in Afghanistan, but even though I was uncertain whether we were supposed to be in Iraq or not, I trust Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and the president, whoever that may be at the time of war, a lot more than I trust...

KING: So if your president commits to war, you have to commit?

KEITH: I'm an American and I have to support our troops. At some point the anti-war stuff in America gets to looking to our troops like anti-American stuff.

KING: What do you do if you're a citizen who honestly opposes?

KEITH: You can support -- I'm all for you supporting that up until the war starts. Once the war starts, I think everybody needs to support -- somebody's got a mother, daughter, brother, sister, son whatever over there laying on the line for us so we can stay here in this big Disneyland we live in. I think you have to support them. They don't want to be over there any worse than the anti-war people. They want to be home with their kids, but they're not. They're over there fighting and I think they need all the support they can get more so about whether we should be at war or not.

This is a weird little coincidence...
KING: Where were you on the morning of 9/11?

KEITH: I was at a thoroughbred horse sale in Kentucky and...

KING: Do you own horses?

KEITH: Yes, I own thoroughbreds. And the FBI, I guess, had come in, and there was two Saudi Arabian princes that come in and buy horses at these sales, and they had big 747s there at the Lexington airport. And on my way to the sale that morning, they were -- the police were all around that -- those...

KING: Looking at the planes.

KEITH: Shutting those planes down

I wonder if his recent comments are because he's seeing some kind of backlash?