Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008?
Barack Obama? Gordon Brown? Michael Phelps? Click through the pros and cons of our finalists for Person of the Year and vote for the candidates you think are most deserving.
Pro: No doubt, Iraq is safer that it was two years ago. The militia movement of radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has been substantially weakened. He appointed Sunnis to cabinet positions, increasing goodwill.
Con: A recent wave of deadly violence — three straight days of rush hour bomb blasts in Baghdad, two sisters from a Christian family slain in the northern city of Mosul — shows how fragile the situation is. And if U.S. forces withdraw under an Obama administration, is al-Maliki strong enough to broker peace on his own?
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