[Fresh Wind]

This can be solved easily. Give her parachute training, make her put on a helmet, boots, and a flight suit (SOP for civilians on combat aircraft). Watch how fast she runs back to the commercial flights.

[twonie]

Good Lord! Does she know what she is asking for? Asking to get into a plane filled with people who despise the very ground she walks on? Does she know that no one will sit with her or talk to her? I certainly hope she doesn't plan on eating or drinking anything while she is there - for her own safety, of course. You can't make this stuff up, can you.

[kerryusama04]

I think the President and everyone who gets to do this have to purchase a first class ticket, right?

[CharlesWayneCT]

As Speaker, she should have access to military planes, for the reasons Hastert said he had them. It's not unreasonable.

But not for the entire california delegation. Pelosi isn't the leader of the california delegation anyway, she's the speaker of the house. Her request was not only excessive, it was parochial and inappropriate -- as speaker she should have asked for military flights for ALL members of congress, not just the delegation from her home state.

And no way her relatives should get on a military plane, unless they are defense employees, like anybody else. Our military isn't a shuttle service.

[radar101]

SOMEONE WHO DESERVED IT!

Staff Sgt. Aime Gaona receives a Purple Heart from Col. Larry Jackson for being struck by a sniper's bullet in her right femur Dec. 19 outside Kirkuk, Iraq. Sergeant Gaona is a weapons intelligence team member of the 732nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, deployed from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. Colonel Jackson is the 732nd Expeditionary Mission Support Group commander. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Kirk Clear

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. Colonel Timothy Strawther, 56th Operations Group commander, welcomes back to Luke Staff Sgt. Aime Gaona after she received a Purple Heart Dec. 19, after being hit by a sniper’s bullet in her right femur. Sergeant Gaona was a weapons intelligence team member of the 732nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron deployed from Luke to Balad, Iraq. She returned to Luke directly from Andrews Air Force Base via a C-17. She was also welcomed back by Brig. Gen. Tom Jones, 56th Fighter Wing commander, and a crowd of family, friends and co-workers.

[bray]

She's got $30 million, can't she pay for herself?

Pray for W and Our Troops

[johnny7]

I'd give her a plane

...and have the crew bail out mid-flight.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Hubris, thy name is Pelosi.

[angelsonmyside]

" The aide asserted that the administration was using a Washington Times reporter, in effect, to negotiate with the speaker's office by leaking information about Mrs. Pelosi's request. Asked if the speaker was seeking increased access to military planes, the aide took the question, but did not call back."

They never cease to amaze me.

[tiger-one]

Is this what John Sununu Sr. caught hell for??

[neodad]

But what's the CO2 footprint? She'll have to plant a bunch of trees to compensate.

[Verginius Rufus]

She probably thinks that she'll be President before the year is out, thanks to Plamegate...the hard left thinks that Cheney's notes prove Bush was criminally involved in the effort to diss St. Joe Wilson, and of course Cheney is even more closely connected because he was Libby's boss.

[Hat-Trick]

I say strap her in the backseat of an F18 and commence aerial combat manuevering. She'd either fill up her mask and pass out or pull the handle.

[Arrowhead1952]

Wasn't it San Francisco that banned the ROTC and military recruiters? It was also turned down for a warship commissioning ceremony. Yeah san fran nan, that city is really going to like those military flights landing there.

San Francisco school board votes to dump JROTC program

Navy rejects San Francisco for warship commissioning ceremony

San Francisco & JROTC: Military Left Behind

San Francisco votes against guns, army recruiters-(heh San France)

[JennysCool]

Thanks again, "protest voters."

[tobyhill]

Sure, she can take a MAC but she needs to be warned up front that they don't serve lobster or wine.

[pabianice]

Since Nancy feels such compassion for our military, I say let her fly a P-3 mission out of NAS Brunswick, ME, on the way back to San Francisco. Preflight is at 0200 on the ramp in horizontal snow with a wind chill of -35 F (a P-3 pref;ight takes 4 hours). Then let her fly the 12-hour mission at low-level in level 3 turbulence in an airplane that is kept at 50 F to keep the elctronics cooled. Throw-in a lot of 60-degree angle bank turns at 200 feet above the waves (typical MAD tracking pattern) and a standard Navy meal of a spam and cheese sandwich on Wonder Bread, one baked pterodactyl wing, one hard-boiled egg, and two chiclets, all washed-down with quince-flavored fruit juice. Make sure the urinal is full and that there are no bags for the crapper. Have her share a barf-bag with the SS3 operator. After landing at 1800 at NAS Point Mugu, one hour post-flight in driving rain, followed by three hour debrief at the ASWOC. Then ride the base garbage truck from the ramp back to the plywood BOQ, from which she can get her limo to SF.

[Polyxene]

This comes under the category, "If you give them an inch, they will take a mile." If this beotch gets this perk, watch out -- there will be no stopping her.

[Uncle Hal]

Why does not the Air force require her to fly the plane.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

What? She's afraid to fly commercial flights? Now why would that be? There's no WOT. The war in Iraq is a mistake. Islamofacism is a myth spread by Neo-cons. Bring the Troops Home Now!

She afraid a commercial flight might be flown into a tall building or something? *SMIRK*