John McCain actually said...

"I think that it is a misinterpretation that we would, and we have to be very clear that we're not leaving."

"The last time we left a place, at the urging of many on the left, not the last time, but one of the times--was Cambodia; and horrible things happened."

"There's no doubt that al Qaeda would work again with the Taliban?"

"to continue building a balance of power in the Middle East that curbs the Iranian Government's pursuit of regional hegemony and a nuclear weapons capability;"