Eventually they just stopped printing them at all.
Because Iraqis and Afghans, notoriously, have no names.
I edited in “and even that not every day”. I thought if I were less subtle the comment would be downvoted.
Yes criminal invasions; calling them “wars” makes them sound more morally neutral, at least to the modern ear.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/pressandpublis...
Did only americans die in iraq?
> At this rate Coronavirus will kill 100 times that :o
Hundreds of thousands of iraqis died because of the illegal invasion. That's not counting the people who starved or died of disease due to the destabilization of the country due to the invasion.
Also, there is a difference between death by natural causes and murder.
Of course, if it aligned with their political agenda. But the NYT was behind the propaganda to start the illegal iraq war, so I doubt that.
Of those they were about 4.5K and 1.5K US government employees (e.g. soldiers). Those are the only ones the NYT would bother to list, of course, but I had hoped even that meager portion might provoke some attention.
Your position echoes Stalin’s calculus that “quantity has a quality all it’s own. In both cases action (and inaction) by a few caused enormous misery for whole populations, though now the country has used its weapon of ignorance to attack itself.