John McCain actually said...

"General McChrystal, please explain why your new strategy and the many additional troops you will receive can bring success in Afghanistan when past efforts have not fully done so?"

"When conditions on the ground have decisively begun to change for the better; that is when our troops should start to return home with honor. Not one minute longer, not one minute sooner and certainly..."

"Then it makes no sense for him to have announced the date."

"If you take only one thing back with you to our fellow citizens in Afghanistan, let it be this: America and this Congress are fully behind them."