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	<title><![CDATA[Getting Zarqawi Four Years Too Late]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-alterman/getting-zarqawi-four-year_b_22545.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/"><em>Altercation</em></a></p>

<p>It's nice that they got Zarqawi. Too bad they didn't try harder before the invasion, when they lied about his membership in Al-Qaeda to create their phony link between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Remember, in arguing for war, Bush referred to a "very senior al-Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year." But the administration has given no indication that Abu Musab Zarqawi collaborated with senior Iraqi officials. So did Powell. As Matthew Yglesias wrote in...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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