There's a self-evident truth about ballplayers with mustaches: Ballplayers with mustaches love talking about mustaches.

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It will be his response not just to last month's Iraq Study Group report, which advocated the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by early next year, but also to the evident truth that the current plan is not working.

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Perhaps Mr Kennedy and his publisher thought its truth to be self-evident.

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