Obama-hated F-22s in combat role over Syria --

In the anti-ISIS air campaign over Syria, America's F-22 stealth fighter finally makes its combat debut.

File photo/Courtesy: U.S. Air Force 

From Defense Tech, a Military.com website:

“Syria is not Libya,” Mark Gunzinger, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a research organization in Washington, D.C., said last year in an interview with Military​.com. “Their air defense systems are more formidable. Using F-22s to help suppress those threats and support penetrating capability may be a good idea.” 

But wait. Obama hates, hates, hates the F-22.

"I reject the notion that we have to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on outdated and unnecessary defense projects to keep this nation secure," said Obama, in reference to the F-22, in 2009.

Obama led the cheerleading to prematurely kill the F-22 program.

Obama hated the F-22 so much, the White House refused to let one be seen in an Obama photo-op backdrop...

From 2009, as reported at ForeignPolicy.com:

When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hangar. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.  

"White House aides actually made them remove the F-22-said they would not allow POTUS to be pictured with the F-22 in any way, shape, or form," one source close to the unit relayed. 

As international threats to the U.S. and its interests now escalate, do you trust Obama-the-picky photo-op-president to keep the nation safe for the next two years?

Update: I've posted a follow up.