waronbush.org

By Dave Winer on 1/15/07; 1:34:50 PM.

Last week, when President Bush's plan for Iraq was coming public, I realized it's going to be a long fight, and if it's anything like the fight we had in the 70s with Nixon over Vietnam, eventually it's going to feel like a war, of ideas, a non-violent war, within the context of the political system of the US.  

There were some heroes of the war with Nixon, we got a reminder when President Ford died at the end of last year, Sam Ervin, Peter Rodino, Barbara Jordan, Archibald Cox, even Charles Rangel, who was on the Watergate-era Judiciary committee, who is still in Congress, now the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.  

We're definitely going to have a major disagreement in this country, you could see it forming in last night's 60 Minutes interview with Bush. He's not going to bend to the will of the American people. I think we're headed for a Watergate-scale battle between the branches, with the lives of thousands of Americans and millions in the Middle East at stake, and eventually, perhaps soon, our way of life, which amazingly hasn't yet felt the imact.  

As a blogger, my job will be to cover this, and to put my spin behind it. I'll do that here on Scripting News of course, but I've started another site to focus attention on the war between the people of the US and our president..  

I'm not sure yet what form this site will take. I've thought it might simply be a place to register names of people who are opposed to the President, who, like the author of this site, are sickened by the prospect yet another existential battle for the soul of America.