McCain answered the question about the gun debate by citing Obama’s culpability for the attack through his foreign policy: “Barack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama’s failures,” McCain said.

ISIS and ISIL are alternate terms for the Islamic State.

When pressed by a reporter on the claim that Obama was “directly” responsible, McCain reiterated his point — that Obama should not have withdrawn combat troops from Iraq: “He pulled everybody out of Iraq, and I predicted at the time that ISIS would go unchecked, and there would be attacks on the United States of America,” he said. “It’s a matter of record, so he is directly responsible.”

In a statement released Thursday afternoon after the comments were publicized, McCain said he “misspoke.”

“I did not mean to imply that the President was personally responsible,” he said. “I was referring to President Obama’s national security decisions, not the President himself. As I have said, President Obama’s decision to completely withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 led to the rise of ISIL. I and others have long warned that the failure of the President’s policy to deny ISIL safe haven would allow the terrorist organization to inspire, plan, direct or conduct attacks on the United States and Europe as they have done in Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino and now Orlando.”

While the gunman referenced the Islamic State multiple times on Sunday, investigators say they are still working to figure out precisely what motivated the gunman and determine how he spent the months leading up to the attack.

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Politicians "don't misspeak". They tell a half-fib in order to stir the possum and then retract, expand or modify the "fib" but they have implanted the suggestion to already make a mark. It's a common practice amongst politicians, thieves and illusionists. 

McCain is also disingenuous. The "fault" lies 99 per cent with his mate George W Bush. We all know this. ISIS powerful army-like structure came directly from the disaffected Sunnis From Saddam army. Saudi Arabia saw an opportunity and helped the formation of ISIS by combining Sunni upheaval in Syria with discontent in Iraq. Did not take long. Modern communications plus the strong Wahhabi religious connection made the process gel very quickly. 

The former Iraqi army brass now working for ISIS, knew exactly where to hit the "newly" American trained Iraqi army, as well as used many informants, traitors in the "new" said army. They easily overpowered the "new" Iraqi army and collected huge arsenal of American weapons. The only proper opposition to these Sunnis were the Shia militias that the US have tried to disband previously. 

The US still has troops in Iraq, despite what McCain says. I don't think that the American population would have been happy with say 100,000 troops in Iraq, nonetheless. AND BARACK OBAMA DIDN'T organise the withdrawal of US troops. It was Dubya himself who was forced to negotiate a withdrawal under pressure from the Iraqi government. 

As usual McCain talks shit, suggests shit and only understood dirty politics.