No but I glanced at the end of it, and while it wasn't very friendly, it didn't seem much worse than your run-of-the-mill pro/anti Bush thread. Only one pulled post on the last page. I don't see why it was locked.
Probably because one person got his/her noise out of joint and crybabied to the Admin Moderators. There are some AM pets here just like there were teacher's pets in school--remember those?