 The next day, McCain said, "I don't think it's appropriate to say that you disapprove of a mission and you don't want to fund it and you don't want it to go, but yet you don't take the action necessary to prevent it".McCain's April 11, 2007, speech on Iraq was delivered to the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets after his return from Iraq.He supported a new strategy in Iraq and opposed Democratic efforts towards troop withdrawal.