From the AP:
McCain spoke to a crowd of more than 120 Army, Marine, Navy and Air Force veterans and their families [in South Carolina] at a monument to dead service members. One wing of the monument had a handful of names of people killed in the first Gulf War and during the past two years in Iraq and Afghanistan. The unfinished wall will have more names for this "conflict that we're in today against people who have taken an honorable religion and perverted it into the greatest force for evil perhaps we have ever faced," McCain said. "We will never surrender. They will," McCain said. McCain told reporters afterward that the Army and Marines need to expand their forces by at least 100,000 to give National Guard units a break. "It is my conviction we have to have a larger Army and Marine Corps. It is absolutely essential because we are asking the Guard to do things that we have never asked them to do before," McCain said.