"We "torture" some soldiers and the entire world is on our backs."

Don't put it in quotes. Those soldiers WERE tortured. The world SHOULD be on your back. As far as I'm concerned, the disturbed individuals hiding behind children have been raised on twisted social and religious propaganda, and ignorance, which has profoundly affected their morals. What are the US soldiers' reasons? They should know better. And it was covered up for a year. Don't make it like the incident wasn't equally as disgusting as what the Iraqis did in that article, it just doesn't happen as often. Because the US claims to be invading to improve the country, I'd say it's pretty important we make sure that you AREN'T doing things like what happened in that prison, especially since it was covered up! A lot of people HAD to have known what was going on. I think that shows that there must be a fair degree of corruption somewhere along the lines of command.

Evil acts are evil acts. You aren't exonerated by any means because they're worse.

"Maybe those children would have never fought if it was not for the war."

The attitude behind the acts would still exist even if it wasn't wartime. People would still be mistreated, and human rights wouldn't be upheld. If people are willing to do such things it shows they need change. Different culture or not, universal human rights should be enforced.

"All I'm trying to say is that no one says good job US for following these rules and doing the right thing by not attacking their holy places and such. All people do is shoot down the US and say how bad we are."

You aren't looking very hard then. A lot of people support the war. Yeah, you do do good, but at the same time you do things that deserve criticism. Not waiting for the UN's ok was a bad move. I don't think the issue is being handled as carefully as it should be. It's a very, very volitile situation, for more than just Iraq. A lot of the things we do are against their beliefs, and they have a right to be agaisnt these things. Their hostility can be explained in other ways other than pure ignorance, don't you think? They're not injured animals biting the hand that cares for them, as many Americans seem to think, albeit the ignorance is there to some degree. As someone else said, you ARE invading their homeland. If someone rushed into my country, I'd be pretty ticked too. Constantly shouting about the "war on terror" and how evil they are really doesn't help abate the situation. But hey, it rallies voters pretty well. What a coincidence.

"War does show the real side of humans"

It shows the worst of humanity, but not the "real side". What does that even mean? That sounds as if we're all acting good, but what we really want to do is fight. I don't think that's true at all, most people are terrified of war, and tend to avoid conflict as much as possible. Just because humans are capable of awful acts doesn't make us as a whole bad, and it doesn't negate the good we do.