John McCain actually said...

"My personal belief is that the longest road to victory here is purely an air campaign."

"We have been trying for years to get the State Department to react... to try to get this issue resolved and these people, who are now in greater and greater danger, what we promised them."

"the United States should do everything in its power, I think, to avert that situation and make sure that what's happening in Syria does not happen in the skies of--over Iraq."

"They deserve our support, and actually they're a--they would constitute a form of pressure on the government in Tehran."