It's not that I think that we're worse than Saddam. Saddam was obviously worse and everyone from us, to the Arabs, to the liberals knows and understands that. It's just these goddamn apologists who try to use what Saddam did to minimize what was done at Abu Gharib: "We might have tortured prisoners, but what Saddam did was WAYYYY worse". What's worse is that these moral idiots are supposedly on my side, which makes me feel like an idiot for associating with them.
If that were true, I'd be with you. We clearly can't compromise our standards because our opponents do so.
That being said, the myopic focus on Abu Ghraib has really convinced many, be they Arab, liberal, European, or whatever, that we are as evil as Saddam. You can point to it as evidence of how insane the left is, but the point remains.