Dear All, Many of us at openDemocracy have been trying our best to keep up with this serious and lengthy discussion on Iraq - war or not? You haven't needed moderators...which is a good thing because I'm not sure how we would have managed to do it! It has been an amazing experience... by turns surprising, moving, amusing, seriously thought-provoking - and it's not over yet (might reach 5,000 posts yet?). Moreover - we will be mining these pages for ways forward in our commissioning and debates(See the Politics of Protest intros for an example of this.) But while it is true that one vital way of developing the discussion around War or Not? is to monitor the war and its outcomes closely - there are more questions we can be asking ourselves, first about the conduct of the war - how it is run and what is or is not being said by the media - and its aftermath in Iraq, the region and the world,in Iraq:War & After, and second about the effectivity of protest and the need some of us feel to look beyond it, in Conflicts/Politics of Power. There are some other good discussions going on the site - I'm just flagging up two you might want to check out. We look forward to seeing how these discussions develop. You're keeping us up to the mark - thanks to everyone involved. Rosemary Bechler, International Editor