claim: john mccain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from iraq.
author: democratic national committee
evidence_1: oct 16, 2008 ... it's the spring of 1974, and navy commander john sidney mccain iii has  returned home from the experience in hanoi that, according to legend, ...  dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for u.s. air forces in europe  and commander of a wing of the strategic air command, was not surprised.
evidence_2: sep 7, 2016 ... clinton noted that trump, who appeared at the forum separately, supported  invading iraq, but found herself forced to answer yet again why she had voted ...  each has, trump's poll numbers in the military community are lower than either  mitt romney's in 2012 or john mccain's in 2008 relative to obama's.
evidence_3: oct 22, 2008 ... as late as june, one aide said, the campaign could not agree on an answer to  the question ''why elect john mccain? ... what campaigns peddle is not simply  character but character as defined by story — a tale of opposing forces that in its  telling will memorably establish what a given election is about.
evidence_4: department of veterans affairs have given insufficient priority to matters of health  protection, .... have been a storage site for iraqi munitions containing nerve  agents. ... guarantee that troops will not be faced with chemical or biological  warfare on the battlefield. troops need to be prepared to detect reliably the  presence of ...
evidence_5: feb 3, 2010 ... top priority for the department must be the critical requirements for the ongoing  conflicts in afghanistan and iraq. this committee ... i have long argued that the  principal mission in afghanistan should be training the afghan security forces, so  that .... john mccain (r-az): thank you very much, mr. chairman.