Spencer Ackerman reminds us of a
previous episode in Joe Lieberman's penchant for declaring victory -- back in
November of 2005 he opined in
The Wall Street Journal that "I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there." And of course back in December of 2003 he
accused Howard Dean of being in a "spider hole of denial" for his inability to see all the progress we were making back then.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/holy-joes-eerie-prescience/44815/