What happened to "the human cost of war?"

Remember how the left went on and on about the Pentagon's policy of not allowing photographs of the flag draped coffins arriving back to the United States from the war?

Vice President Joe Biden had this to say at the time (2004):

"These young men and women are heroes, the idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong."

So in April, when the Obama administration lifted the ban on photographing the caskets, 35 outlets rushed to take pictures.

Now, and for the last 11 times caskets have arrived, only one media outlet has been there to take pictures, The Associated Press, and the reason is that the employee lives close by and can come anytime.

So far this month, 38 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan. For all of 2009, the number is 220 -- more than any other single year and more than died in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 combined.

So what happened to showing "the human cost of war?" Why the indifference now?

Oh yeah, President Bush is no longer President.

Sometimes the hypocrisy just reeks.