She would be screaming bloody murder if this was Bush.

Via Politico:

The White House doesn’t need congressional authority to send airstrikes to help the Iraqi government combat Islamic militants, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.

Pelosi, along with other congressional leaders, met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday to discuss his plans for Iraq. The White House is reportedly weighing airstrikes or other military action to help Baghdad combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

“The president does not need any additional congressional authority to act upon measures for our national security,” she said, adding that she was not in support of putting “boots on the ground.”

“Generally speaking, I think that you have to be careful about sending special forces, because it’s a number that has a tendency to grow, because I would like to see the context, purpose, timeline and the rest for anything like that,” she said.