Lindsey Graham actually said...

To start withdrawing troops would be equivalent to surrendering in the central battle front in the war on terror.

We're on the verge of chaos. The current plan is not working.

I was an early supporter of the concept of military commissions and their use in the war on terror. I believed then and I still believe now ...

The problem with the way he chose to do this is that they dealt Congress out early on, and they paid a price in the court for that.