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	<title><![CDATA[The 3,999th Was Important, Too]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/the-3999th-was-important-_n_93149.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Last Wednesday, on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War which was supposed to be so short that <strong>Donald Rumsfeld </strong> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/09/12/finally-the-news-picks-u_e_29275.html">got mad at people who dared suggest they have a post-invasion plan</a>, the number of dead U.S. servicepeople in Iraq stood at <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080320/wl_mideast_afp/iraqwar5yearsuscasualties">3,990</a>. The next day, it was at 3,991. It wasn't going to take long to get to 4,000 and everyone knew it. Probably some news organizations had special plans for how they'd commemorate that "</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-04-02T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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