This is all over the place in one form or another:

The latest U.S. deaths brought the number of members of the U.S. military killed since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003 to at least 2,978 — five more than the number killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Emphasis mine. 

Mohammed on a moped, are we really going to start seeing this on a daily basis now?  “X amount more than were killed on 9/11?”  This is how we’re measuring things?

You know what pisses me off?  I know Viet Nam made the reporting of enemy casualties oh so uncouth, and that when it was tried back in 2003 the DoD took huge hits from the media for it.  So how come it’s okay for the media to report daily, almost hourly, on OUR dead?  What makes that okay?  How come their dead are sacred and ours are fodder?