The US funded and trained state death squads in Iraq, which engaged in anti-Sunni sectarian violence. We know from leaks that this violence was broadly tolerate

The US funded and trained state death squads in Iraq, which engaged in anti-Sunni sectarian violence. We know from leaks that this violence was broadly tolerated, and even encouraged. There are cases of suspected insurgents being handed over to them to be disappeared. The blood is just as much on the hands of the US government as Ukraine's is on the Russian government. By the Iraq War Bodycount's dataset, the civilian kill count of US forces alone, without including the Iraqi government forces, almost matches that of the sectarian terrorists who explicitly sought out to kill civilians. From occupation to leaving in 2011, it is only about 20% less. That is plainly unacceptable and criminal in any context. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/25/iraq-torture-no-secret https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/25/iraq-t... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/24/iraq-war-logs-us-iraqi-torture https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/24/iraq-war-logs-... https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2010-03-10/obama-administration-handed-over-detainees-despite-reports-of-torture https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2010-03-10/oba... https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2011-05-23/us-troops-ordered-not-to-investigate-iraqi-torture https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2011-05-23/us-... https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/iraqs-new-death-squad/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/iraqs-new-death-sq... https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/