Yep, saw that article. It doesn't elicit an affirmative answer to your original question, "are the U.S. and its allies engaged in 'passive' genocide?" The article also said that "even before the latest war, Iraq was plagued by electricity shortages, a lack of clean water and too few hospitals." Many factors have contributed to the present sad situation. Saddam mistreated his own people for his own personal aggrandizement. The invasion destroyed some portion of the existing, already insufficient, infrastructure (the amount is subject to considerable disagreement). "The US and its allies" have been trying to rebuild, but a good bit (again, the amount is subject to dispute) of the funds allocated have been diverted, largely by the contractors, and some of the Iraqis and their allies blow things up as fast as they are fixed or replaced.