John McCain actually said...

"We are not seeking to help the opposition win a civil war."

"To call the categorizing and removal of chemical weapons a huge success, it may be, but we are now in the Orwellian situation where the Russians are assisting us in our irreplaceable part of the scena..."

"For you to describe this as a, 'civil war' is a gross distortion of the facts."

"The centerpiece of U.S.-Saudi friction is the administration's more restrained approach in Syria."