John McCain actually said...

"We needed a residual force as we had in South Korea, in Berlin, in Bosnia, in Japan."

"The question is whether a total withdrawal and announcement of it encourages the Taliban and increases dramatically the risk of the rise of the Taliban and further chaos in the country and further dea..."

"What most of us advocated and we are seeing this movie in Iraq is that by announcing a complete withdrawal, that we encourage the Taliban."

"I am predicting to you now, as I predicted what happened in Iraq, that you will see a resurgence of the Taliban and great damage done by the Taliban to the Afghan people."