I am still opposed to the war, I have been from the start. I wasn't able to vote against Bush the first time, but I did the second. Anyway, I believe the United States will be at war with Iran in the future regardless of the outcome of the war in Iraq. I do believe that Iraq will fall regardless of the outcome of the war as well - it's just the region of the world that isn't ever going to be a true democracy like Bush wants. It's the only reason we're in there now, to form an established democracy. As far as deployment, it shouldn't be abrupt, but it should be happening. Our economy is suffering. We the US decided to take action unilaterally so the burden is on us to turn a country out at all the costs of not having significant help. So the argument really isn't with senators and the way they voted we should have had a president who understood that he needed Allied help from the beginning. Authorization doesn't mean he should step right in to a war, it only gives him the right to. He chose a unilateral approach and now we're paying for it.
As far as eradication of Terrorism is concerned, that won't happen.
To slightly defend McCain (I know shocking), I believe he meant that we'll always be stationed in Iraq. We have military stationed in many parts of the world, I doubt he meant war, just us being established there for a hundred years is going to happen. But I'm still not going to vote for him.
Oh and I am beyond tired of hearing that Hilary Clinton cannot be president for the sole reason she is a first lady, married to Bill Clinton. She isn't carrying around his baggage, she has her own brain and ideas, her own qualifications. If that's the only reason people have for not voting for her then they shouldn't ever vote for president as their views are screwed. Just like the people that won't vote for Obama because of his name or skin color.