John McCain actually said...

The fact is that the President of the United States--there was never any public statement that the President made, the United States made, that said that he wanted to stay or have a residual force in Iraq.

Context

McCain emphasizes that there was no official statement to keep troops in Iraq.

01/15/2014

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