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When Bush was president and the Iraq surge was going on all you heard about on the nightly news was how many US troops were being killed. Now the media pretty much ignores the casualty count even though it was higher in obamas Afghan surge than it was in the Iraq surge. This is no coincidence and this is not about people getting used to our soldiers being killed, it is about the liberal media covering the wars under obama and Bush in an entirely different fashion. The truth is the media is doing all it can to shade the news to favor obama just as they did to portray Bush in the worst possible light.. Americans have not become numb they are just not being told about US casualties and I'll bet most think there are far fewer in Afghanistan under obama than there were under Bush.
CNSNews.com) - Two-thirds of U.S. military fatalities in the decade-long Afghan war have occurred since May 15, 2009, when the first wave of the troop surge ordered by President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan.
"The 1,180 U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan reported between May 15, 2009 and today account for approximately 66 percent of the total of 1,792 U.S. military fatalities in that country since the beginning of the war in October 2001, according to CNSNews.com’s database of all fatalities in the war."
More US Troop Deaths in Afghanistan Under Obama Than Bush
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As early as August of 2010, the number of American soldiers, who had died in Afghanistan under Barack Obama, surpassed the number of troops that died under George W. Bush’s authority. Think about it: In less than two years, Obama’s actions have resulted in the deaths of more Americans in Afghanistan than in eight years of Bush’s Presidency.
The lack of reporting is a indicator of media bias, not whether or not the the public as a whole is numb to troop deaths. When Bush was president troop deaths mattered in the media's eyes.Now that Obama is president troop deaths are meaningless to liberals in general. I remember on another forum back when Bush was president a liberal had a troop death thread and posted on it any time a troop death was reported. Now that Obama is president he seems to no longer care.