John McCain actually said...

"I think you correctly and characteristically bluntly identify as our greatest long-term threat in the region."

"The historic changes now reshaping the broader Middle East are a direct repudiation of al Qaeda and its terrorist allies."

"The transition process will start with a limited conditions-based withdrawal this year."

"Not since the fall of the Soviet Union have we seen a wave of change destabilize more critical countries all at once than we are now witnessing."