The Gravel Kraken, in response to the Obama administrations frequent use of drone strikes to decimate al Qaeda, wants to know:
Hey liberals, what gives? Where are the anti-war protests? Where is the outrage? I’m seriously confused. Can someone please explain it to me or is killing large numbers of innocent civilians another one of those things that’s acceptable now that Obama is president?
Well, I think the line about it being acceptable under Obama and not Bush is a little bit disingenuous. There really is a huge difference in situations here, and it explains the lack of protest from liberals.
Bush committed massive amounts of soldiers to a ground invasion with no end in sight to do basically nothing useful. Obama found a much cheaper way to accomplish an actual goal without risking American lives.
So where are the anti-war protests? Well simply put a lot of folks think that it doesn’t count as war if your soldiers aren’t involved. Libertarians may disagree with this distinction, and I do as well, but to a lot of people its a significant distinction. The important question to ask, in seeking an answer to The Gravel Kraken’s, is “what does this mean to a little town in Iowa”?
In 2003, it meant the activation and deployment of national guard units. It meant husbands and sons going away for years, in some cases forever. These are tangible things that impact peoples everyday lives.
In 2012, what does the drone war mean to that little town? They hear vague references to it on the news (yesterday in Pakistan we killed some terrorists!) but that’s about it.
I’m not saying I agree with the distinctions here, a rose by any other name, etc. But I do think it answers the question, and I really don’t see this as some kind of political thing where liberals hated Bush so they freaked but they like Obama so no worries.
520 Chestnut 
I’m sorry but The Gravel Kraken’s “confusion” is hard for me to comprehend. What Bush did in Iraq is way beyond anything the current administration is involved in. In Iraq ( a country not involved in the 9/11 terrorist strike ) the numbers of killed and injured due to our involvement far far far outnumber those affected similarly by the Obama administration’s actions. The hundreds of thousands of killed and wounded innocent people in Iraq was the cause of the outrage. The false justifications for the Iraq war given by the Bush administration were a further point of anger.
Your premise is totally wrong in comparing the numbers of people killed or wounded by Bush to those of Obama. Not taking that difference into account surely would lead to confusion.