"...George W. Bush...under fire for a ruckus overseas."

[Paradise]

"Face the Nation: Demure Madonna and Anxious President
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
What George W. Bush and Madonna have in common: both are famous people famously under fire for a ruckus overseas."

New York Times link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/arts/television/26watc.html?th&emc=th (registration required)

??????"... IN COMMON ... RUCKUS ..."?????????

[ixion]

1. if by 'ruckus' they mean 'committed war crimes' then

I guess they're spot on. Did Madonna commit war crimes?

[donco6]

2. Did Madonna kill a bunch of people?

I must have missed that issue of People. . .

[neilepi]

3. And there was I thinking that her S & M outfits were just an act....

The new, unique, 2007 Anti-Bush Graffiti Calendar

[raccoon]

4. Ruckus!!!! I guess the dead and wounded Iraqis and American

servicepersons would call it something else.

What's this moran's email address?

[Paradise]

6. go to the article, and just keep clicking on her by-line name.

that will take you to an email form to her...

[Lautremont]

5. A ruckus is something caused by a freewheeling man-ape duo.

It's not a word I'd use for a war, any more than I'd call torture 'shenanigans.'