His wife had no idea that Mr Darby had handed in those photos, but when he was named, she had to flee to her sister's house which was then vandalised with graffiti. Many in his home town called him a traitor.

"I knew that some people wouldn't agree with what I did," he says.

"You have some people who don't view it as right and wrong. They view it as: I put American soldiers in prison over Iraqis."

That animosity in his home town has meant that he still cannot return there.

After Donald Rumsfeld blew his cover, he was bundled out of Iraq very quickly and lived under armed protection for the first six months.

He has since left the army but did testify at the trials of some of those accused of abuse and torture. It is Charles Graner he is most afraid of.

"Seeing Graner across the courtroom was the only one that was difficult during the trial," he says.

"He had a stone-cold stare of hatred the entire time - he wouldn't take his eyes off me the whole time he sat there.

marked man after his anonymity was blown in the most astonishing way by Donald Rumsfeld.

Are there no repercussions for Rumsfeld for his 'blunder' or is he above the law?

Of course not.

hatred & the need to overpower others - is such an inhumane phenomena yet so widely popular ........

important clip amergin, 10x

isn't this the same thing as outing Valerie Plame?
That is what Nazis do. They pretend the people who are trying to do right are wrong. And they get the mob to do the lynching. This country has been under Nazi control for 7 years now. If we don't wake up. We will end up with world war three.

What the hell is wrong with people? He should he congratulated for his brave act. He's a true Hero.

The thing that is wrong with these people is that they are left to go unchallenged. When a popular idea in America is that to question our government or president is considered unpatriotic then that is how things like this happen.

I recall a quote from Oliver Stone's movie 'Nixon' :

Nixon shuffles back alone, coming to a stop in front of a larger-than-life, full-length oil portrait of JOHN F. KENNEDY. Nixon studies the portrait, pads closer. Looks up.

NIXON
When they look at you, they see what they want to be.
(then)
When they look at me, they see what they are ...

The thing that is wrong with these people is that they are left to go unchallenged. When a popular idea in America is that to question our government or president is considered unpatriotic then that is how things like this happen.

There's the truth of it!