This is the tenth thread in a series which has been running for three years and three months, and although broken into several threads, very likely constitutes the longest running discussion online anywhere. There may be other candidates for such a dubious honor, but this series is a monster nevertheless. Below i have copied my initial post from a bibliography of this thread series which i cannot now edit to keep it up-to-date. Please carry on here as you have done in the past, and i have no doubt that you
will carry on. My initial post in the bibliography is in error, because, in fact, Walter Hinteler started the series with the "Anti War Movement" thread, and Edgarblythe's post on November 14, 2002, was the first post in the second thread which Jespah had created by splitting off the discussion in the first thread, and re-titling the thread "The US, the UN and Iraq." I'd ask everyone to play nice, but i know better.
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On November 14, 2002, Edgarblythe started the monster of all threads at this site. Today, i opened the eighth thread in the series. I felt a bibliography of sorts would be in order. Now, if you're up to the effort, you can find out if she
really did say so before the war . . .
This is the ur-thread to the series:
Anti War Movement, Walter Hinteler, October 22, 2002.
Which was split off by Jespah and has been followed by:
The US, The UN and Iraq[/b], Edgarblythe (first post in this new thread), November 14, 2002.
The US, UN & Iraq II[/b], Jespah, March 10, 2003.
The US, Un & Iraq III[/b], Jespah, April 16, 2003.
The US, UN and Iraq IV[/b], McTag, August 27, 2003
THE US, UN AND IRAQ V[/b], Setanta, November 25, 2003
THE US, UN AND IRAQ VI[/b], Setanta (at the request of Kara), December 23, 2003
THE US, THE UN AND THE IRAQIS THEMSELVES, V. 7.0[/b], Setanta, January 7, 2004
US AND THEM: US, UN & Iraq, version 8.0[/b], Setanta, May 5, 2005
I will attempt to keep this up-to-date, or in my absence, request that a responsible person do so.
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I had intended to post the total posts to all the threads, and the total views--but it's late and the task has proven more difficult than i bargained for. There are more than 160 pages in the Politics forum to wade through to get the information, and it could be found anywhere. So, for example, there were still idiotic assertions being made and answered in the original thread in the spring of 2004, a year and a half after that thread had been split off to the second thread. The last version from which this was linked had almost 6000 responses, and had been viewed more than 50,000 times. This suggests that there are probably more than 50,000 posts in the entire series, and a half million or more views. This is more than the total traffic of some bulletin boards online.