Can you imagine who ABC News believes is a "Person of the Year"? None other than Joseph Darby. Don't know who Joseph Darby is? He is the US Army Specialist who broke the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story.

Now, I have no doubts that it was very traumatic for these Muslim prisoners to wear panties on their heads.

But at least they had heads to wear panties on, unlike far too many others who died viciously at the hands of their terrorist captors. Have you ever seen a beheading? It stays with you.

Far too often I have heard Americans say, "Oh no, I could never watch a beheading video. I'd have nightmares and ewwww, and ugh........" In the next breath they spout off some Michael Moorian philosophy of our occupation of Iraq. They conveniently don't mention the millions slaughtered and maimed by Saddam and his ilk, but instead cling to the notion that Americans are there for oil, etc.

What a crock.

Person of the Year, indeed. I'd be more impressed with the young specialist if he spent time looking for those poor souls captured and threatened with real torture. Panties on the head, indeed.