Meanwhile, the progress continues

As Atrios points out, we have now "actually" completed "one Evan Bayh unit" of time since the Lieberman of the Hoosier State said this:

Bayh said if the Iraqi factions “get their political act together — and we will know this in the next six to eight weeks… if they can form a government… then there’s something to work with there.” If not, then “we’re out.”

This was said on May 22, 2006. So by my calendar that is 48 days, so we're pretty much in that 6 to 8 week area.

Naturally, living in the "Greater Iowa Area" if I see Senator Bayh at the HyVee or BeBops I'll be sure to ask him about this:

Up to 40 people, including women and children, were killed on Sunday when Shiite gunmen went on a rampage against residents in predominantly Sunni districts of Baghdad, Interior Ministry and police sources said.

It was the worst outbreak of sectarian violence to date in the capital, which has seen hundreds of bodies dumped in the streets over past months amid worsening communal bloodshed.

And as Juan Cole notes via the NY Times, the Iraqi government which took one Friedman Unit to assemble after elections, may be taking only a half-Friedman (an "FU") to collapse:

Sunni Arab politicians are considering withdrawing from executive offices in the Shiite-led government because militiamen have yet to free a Sunni legislator kidnapped this month, a Sunni leader said Saturday.

Adnan al-Dulaimi, a leader of the main Sunni Arab political group, which holds 44 of the 275 seats in Parliament, said the bloc would also continue its boycott of the legislature for a second week.

That was written before 40 Sunni were killed in Baghdad by Shiia militia.