CS Monitor | To Arabs, photos confirm brutal US

"'The Americans say they went into Iraq to stop these abuses. But now they're doing exactly the same thing as Saddam Hussein.'

That is a typical reaction here to the graphic picture and several others like it taken by American soldiers guarding Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.

But to some extent the impact of the pictures has been blunted, as many Arabs say they expect no less from the United States given the widely held view that it is running a brutal and oppressive occupation in Iraq."

The Christian Science Monitor underscores the big lies that the US is 1) Winning hearts and minds in Iraq 2) Running a kinder war. What is perhaps the most telling is later on in the article:

"It's unbelievable. These are the same old practices of Saddam," says Sateh Noureddine, a columnist with Lebanon's As-Safir newspaper.

Now who believes that Iraq is better off since Saddam Hussein was deposed?