Who really mattered

I find it pretty instructive that Time's "People Who Mattered 2004 (in the issue with the Catastrophic Success proclaimed as 'Cabbage of the Year,')" inludes our man in Baghdad, Iyad Allawi (in the photo, he's accompanied by two machine gun toting American 'civil contractors')," but the article does not include Ali Sistani.

Perhaps Time had a quota of only one Iraqi, but if not for the Ayatollah in Najaf "Mess o'Potamia" would be an even greater bloodbath than it already is. If not for Sistani, there would be no Allawi.