Happy Friedman Unit Day!

Atrios has a number of posts up today celebrating various Friedman Unit expirations. He's really done a marvelous job keeping track of all of them and reminding us when they expire. Here's one (reprinting the entire post because it's too good not too) that is particularly hactacular:

Happy FU, ISG!

It was six months ago today that the all-important Iraq Study Group report was released. For a meditation on its importance, I give you Dean Broder:

Whatever the final impact of the Iraq Study Group report being issued today, for the 10 commission members this was an exhilarating experience, a demonstration of genuine bipartisanship that they hope will serve as an example to the broader political world.

He later wrote:

Bush will reject it at his peril.

And then after Bush rejected it, wrote:

It may seem perverse to suggest that, at the very moment the House of Representatives is repudiating his policy in Iraq, President Bush is poised for a political comeback. But don't be astonished if that is the case.

Since its release, approximately 585 US troops have died.

If it all wasn't so tragic it would be funny. This post, by itself, is a summary of the mendacity of the media, the inside the beltway crowd, the Bush administration and the terror of this war. All in a nice little nutshell.