Saddam was not as bad as ISIS. At least not for Christians, Yazidis, women, etc.
There were no public crucifixions or burnings under Saddam. Women were not enslaved and sold to the highest bidder. Though if you pissed him or a member of his government off sufficiently I have no doubt similar things happened in private.
Those are Saddam’s men in charge of ISIS. You do remember his two sons right ?
Saddam’s Gen. alDuri was, long before the US invasion, advising Saddam to embrace islamists. That was why his rhetoric started to resemble that of bin Laden and others. That’s why he sent personnel to train al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan in forgery, started broadcasting and posting Islamicist screeds, and started instituting sharia law in Baghdad, forcing doctors to remove tongues and hands as punishment, and allowed men like Zarqawi to set up a cell of mostly Egyptian terrorists there ...a cell whose first targets included a Christian nun, whom they decapitated in Baghdad; this is the organization that merged with Krekar’s group and which later renamed itself ISIS, and after Saddam was executed his General al Dhuri and sons and followers swore an oath of allegiance to ISIS leader Zarqawi.