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And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

So now we have a better idea of which Democrats will be running the show when Congress changes hands in January, but we still don't have any clarity about what it's going to mean for U.S. involvement in Iraq. It certainly seems like Stay the Course has run its course. So what can we expect instead? If there's one Democrat in a position to say, it's Carl Levin, chairman in waiting of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

We should pressure the White House to commence the phased redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq

in four to six months. Levin's proposal for phased redeployment isn't a new one. Congressman

Jack Murtha famously called

for the same thing a year ago. But these days, the plan seems to have gotten a lot more supporters.

Here's Senator Barack Obama on Good Morning America. What I would do is sit down with the Joint

Chiefs of Staff and the military that's actually on the ground and figure out how do we

fit together a military strategy that can start that phase redeployment.

Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is on board as well.

We need to have a redeployment in Iraq. What does that mean? Pull everybody out now? Of course not.

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