Stewart Debates ‘Civil War’ Semantics

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Stewart Debates ‘Civil War’ Semantics

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The situation in Iraq: Is it a “civil war” or “a minor linguistic flareup between two parties of different terminological points of view”? Jon Stewart and senior Middle East correspondent John Oliver debate and agree to “agree to disagree on how they state their agreements.”
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