Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for killing an estimated upwards of 500 thousand to 1 million of his own people with poison gas. Those stats don't include those he imprisoned in dungeons and sadistically tortured.
Methods of torture used by Hussein's regime included: assault with brass knuckles and wooden bludgeons, electric shocks to the genitalia, scorched metal rods being forced into body orifices, the crushing of toes and removal of toenails, burning off limbs, lowering prisoners into vats of acid, poisoning with thallium, raping women in front of their family members, burning with cigarette butts, the crushing of bones, the amputation of ears limbs and tongues, and the gouging of eyes."
Yet somehow 2014's ISIS + Twitter > 2003's Saddam - WMD. Either you're for it or against it. Either you realize the US and CIA sometimes created, trained, supplied munitions to these leviathans or you do not. Let's continue what hasn't worked for decades, just because.
Perhaps a Martha's Vineyard vacation for ISIS is the answer.