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	<title><![CDATA[Independence Days]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ned-lamont/independence-days_b_222921.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>It's hard to believe, but today finally marks the beginning of the end of America's front line military role in Iraq.</p>

<p>Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has named today, June 30th, 2009, an "Iraqi Independence Day" of sorts, a national holiday which he said would celebrate the <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iraq-pullout-jun30,0,4117687.story">"great victory"</a> of Iraqis who have repulsed the foreign occupiers (aka their American liberators). With <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/29/us-troops-to-withdraw-fro_n_222387.html">fireworks filling the night skies</a> over Baghdad, all American combat troops are moving out of the major...</A></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-06-30T09:23:00-04:00</date_published>
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