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Killed vs Died (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is probably just a use of different words to not sound repetitive.

Then why do they only do it in the same way, every time, and for other western powers? For example, this is from 2005:

"On the March 18 CBS Evening News, reporter Byron Pitts gave these figures: “Today, U.S. deaths number more than 1,500. There are no exact figures for Iraqi fatalities, but estimates are for every American killed, 11 Iraqis died.” In other words, more than 16,500 Iraqi deaths."

Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, but decades of examples are clearly a system pattern.