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Sen. John McCain's famous "Straight Talk Express" was gone, replaced by a bus emblazoned with a sign that read "No Surrender."

McCain and a group of veterans — including former prisoners of war who were held with him in Vietnam and newly minted Iraq veterans — piled into the bus and drove across Iowa, stopping in VFW posts and American Legion halls to argue that the current strategy in Iraq is working and that Democrats and wavering Republicans who want to withdraw the troops now are making a terrible mistake.

"If we leave, there will be chaos and genocide in the region, and we will be back," McCain said Wednesday at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 737 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, warning that Iran would step into the void if the United States pulls out.

Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed for greater troop withdrawals from Iraq.

Obama called for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year.

"Let me be clear: There is no military solution in Iraq, and there never was," Obama said in a speech to about 500 people.

Clinton sent President Bush a letter urging him to bring troops home faster and not to use his prime-time speech today to declare new successes in Iraq.