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The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.

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Jon Stewart
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 28
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