Article: From liberator to oppressor: Many Arabs view U.S. differently now; Rumsfeld should resign.

Byline: Daniel Sneider

The Bush administration is desperately trying to contain the scandal over American guards who abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. But it is already too late for damage control.

The nauseating image of an American woman guard, posing with a cigarette dangling from her mouth while pointing at the genitals of a naked and hooded prisoner, is already burned forever into the minds of millions of Iraqis and fellow Arabs. No matter what happens now in Iraq, we've lost the war for Arab hearts and minds.

Certainly what the American guards did pales in comparison to the torture, brutality and murder practiced by the Saddam ...

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