For this category, the following information is required for a nomination to be valid:

*A link to the post that contains the most convincing individual post (not the entire thread)
*The name of the member who made the post
*The post must have been submitted on or after July 1, 2007.

I nominate this one by DCjumper

DCjumper Was the invasion of Iraq essential, or even important, to the Global War on Terrorism?

That's not a post. That's a wikipedia link.

Yea Jamie told me, it's been fixed.

This was tough: which one of Dontreadonme's posts to nominate?

I finally went with this one from The Surge in Baghdad (II). It is typical of several of DTOM's posts (in a variety of areas) and, while he's had numerous convincing posts in all of the major forums here, he's made many persuasive contributions to threads on Iraq. This one combines terse rebuttal with research and reasoned response and also contains a remarkably honest coda, based on personal experience, which encapsulates his position and how it has evolved over the course of several years. It's not all that often that participants here change their minds on much of anything. To see it done with candor and humility in the context of the debate itself has been, for me, very convincing.

This well-reasoned response by Julian.