However, some Muslim kid in Algeria, Indonesia, or Uzbekistan is going to know Saddam used that prison to torture people, and now the US did the same thing. That kid is going to grow up with a view of the US which isn't flattering, and he will have some reason for it.

No, the main reason this Muslim kid will think this way is because his sources of information, like al Jazeera and the idiot who wrote the web page you linked to, aren't going to tell him about Saddam's torture chambers, mass graves or anything else. Just Abu Ghraib.

I read some of the Arabic news sources, when I can. I would know a lot more if I could read Arabic.

MEMRI is an interesting source. In my opinion, it is not unbiased in its selection of articles, but what it translates is accurate.

I'm not naive enough to think the U.S. didn't get into bed with some nasty people during the Cold War. And we have already seen negative repercussions for that back through several administrations.

I still believe that the good we have done far outweighs it. Even in Iraq.