Obama's blank check

[Quantum Windbag]

Gotta love how the media kept up the running casualty count the entire time Bush was president, and dropped it when Obama moved in. It gives the impression that people are no longer dying in Afghanistan and Iraq. Until something happens that is so bad the media cannot ignore it, like the 30 people dying in the attempt to rescue the Rangers that got pinned down this weekend.

The strange thing is that the numbers do not support that interpretation.

The Obama administration is on pace to have more American soldiers killed in casualties related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than the George W. Bush administration did in its first term.
Already, hundreds more American troops have been killed in Afghanistan during the less than three years of the Obama administration than during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration. According to the iCasualties.org Web site, whose count more or less tracks that of other sites devoted to these statistics, 630 American soldiers died in the Afghanistan operation in the years 2001 through 2008, when Mr. Bush was president, while 1097 American soldiers have died in the years 2009, 2010, and 2011. Even if you allocate the 30 or so American soldiers killed in January 2009 entirely to Mr. Bush, who was president until the January 20 inauguration, it is quite a record.
Include Iraq, and the comparison tells a similar story: about 1,300 Americans killed in operations related to Iraq and Afghanistan combined during the first two and a half or so years we’ve had of the Obama administration, versus less than 600 American casualties in the first full three years of the George W. Bush administration.
It all raises at least two related questions. First, where are the antiwar protests? And second, where is the press?

Obama Gets a Blank Check for Endless War - Reason Magazine

iCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom | Afghanistan

Did the country stop caring after Obama got elected, or was there another reason the media dropped the casualty count?