The next six months

Anybody who has read Atrios knows all about Friedman Units¹. Well, the Center for American Progress has put together a great time line on all the Bush Co. apologists politicians, administration officials and sympathetic media-types who have said the “next X weeks/months” will show whether the U.S. is making progress in Iraq. Check it out:

You can go all the way back to February 2003, and clicking on an event will give you the full quote and tell you where it appeared. I’ll always love the one displayed above — Cheney’s insistence that the insurgency was in it’s last throes — from more than two years ago.

Link via Atrios, of course.

1. If not, here’s where the term was coined (Return to post)