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The Brown Cost of War Project estimates about 200,000 violent civilian fatalities in Iraq between 2003 and 2021. The overwhelming majority of these people were killed by groups the US was fighting (pro-Saddam, Sunni, Shia incl. Hezb, and later ISIS).
The US Military (in what was a war, not a genocide) killed considerably fewer civilians in 18 years than the IDF killed Gazans in two years of genocide. This is remarkable given that the people the US was fighting had much larger numbers and were much better equipped, thus increasing the possibility and opportunity for collateral killing of civilians.
This is not surprising given that the US Military did not have anything akin to the IDF's rules of engagement - IDF ground troops were sanctioned to murder everybody who remained in areas after they were ordered evacuated, and then razed everything that remained. Again, we are relativizing the Gaza Genocide when we compare it to the wars in/US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. There is no evidence that the US Military had a policy to kill civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan, even if activists want to claim that to sound radical.