John McCain actually said...

Obama would rather win the election than win in Iraq.

I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Senator Obama w...

It has to be based on conditions on the ground. But whenever you win wars, and we are winning, then we will be able to come home.

It doesn't in the slightest undercut the fact that it's based on conditions on the ground.