And the fact of the matter is that casualties are much higher since 9/11 than on 9/11. You are only talking about deaths. We have almost 23,000 wounded, many of them very severely. They should not be ignored when the costs of the war are tallied. And the official numbers do not include military contractors or other civilian personnel in theater. Some figures suggest as many as 500 contractor personnel have died in Iraq.
No one - and you can't point to anyone - is 'ignoring' the deaths on 9/11. It isn't an equivalency game. The issue isn't whether the costs of the war are equal to the costs of that attack. The issue is whether the costs of the war are an appropriate price to pay for the benefit realized.
It is an equivalence game. Have you read anything recently? I can't tell you how many stories I've seen in the news about "Iraq deaths now surpass 9/11" or the countdown the media did to 1000 and then 2000 deaths in Iraq. They made it an equivalence game, not us.