They are beyond sick.
Concur. They are the worst of a group of thugs that has been terrorizing an entire country essentially unopposed for an entire generation. Their job has been to control a population with terror. They have heretofore been able to get away with anything they can dream up, and they have some pretty nasty imaginations.
If Iraq is to become a civilized country again - and I have faith that it will - these guys need to be sent for a long trip down a mine shaft.