Hitler (1938), Stalin (1939), Khomeini (1979), and Bush (2004)

As the new Time Magazine "Person of the Year", you can place Bush in either august or ignoble company as you wish.  Allegedly, according to this Wikipedia article, when the 2001 race came down to Rudy Giuliani or Osama bin Laden, Time "anguished over the choice, fearing that selecting the al-Qaeda leader might offend readers (and advertisers)... In the end, Giuliani's selection led some to criticize that TIME had chickened out." 

As the title of this post points out, and all (well, mostly all) it is intended to point out, is some very unpopular (even widely hated) war-mongering figures have received the "honor" of gracing Time's front cover.  I attach this caveat in part to deflect criticism that I am either eulogizing Hitler by boosting him to Bush's level or vilifying Bush by equating him with a dead, syphilitic German monorchid.  In my not so humble opinion, the Red States should have been mentioned as the "People of the Year" for succesfully inflicting an unabashedly theocratic nationalist upon the rest of us.