Gen. Patreus to ask for a (another) Friedman unit tomorrow

[underpants]

Tomorrow on Capitol Hill, Gen. David Petraeus “is expected to call for halting troop reductions that began in December for about six months to assess the security situation.” Petraeus’ recommendation “would keep about 140,000 troops in Iraq — 10,000 more than before the surge of troops last year.

http://thinkprogress.org/

thinkprogress's source article

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080407/NATION/63822057/1001

Friedman unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_(unit)

The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a tongue-in-cheek neologism coined by blogger Atrios (Duncan Black) on May 21, 2006.<1>

A Friedman is a unit of time equal to six months in the future

[bdamomma]

1. it just never ends.

they are not listening to the American people, they truly insult us all, isn't anyone tired of this crap of them not listening to us. We need to DEMAND that we are seeing our country gutted financially and morally from these thugs who want to continue this blood bath.

[Supersedeas]

7. the hand the problem to the next administration policy of cowardice

[Lautremont]

2. General Pootrus Strikes Again!

[DemoTex]

3. General Petraeus will also put a "Westmoreland Tautology Frame" on the table.

"Westmoreland Tautology Frame" or "WTF": a tongue-in-cheek neologism coined by Gen. William Westmoreland during the Tet Offensive of the Viet Nam War. Simply put, a WTF states .. over and over, ad nauseum .. that VICTORY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER.

:wtf:

[underpants]

5. Well it was

the problem is that they were (are) going in circles trying to find a corner

[King Coal]

4. He is going to claim the Iran is supplying the insurgents and Al Quada.

Cheney wants to attack Iran. Make no mistake about it.

[Supersedeas]

6. 6 more months 6 more months 6 more months 6 more months 6....