It's true, I was there, John McCain said this today.
My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East, That will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.
Said a mouthful, didn't he? And nothing out of context. That's it. Clear enough? Enough for you to remember next time you hear that high-minded crap about Iraq being the "central front in the war on terror," or that the fight for our "freedom" is being waged "in the streets of Baghdad," et cetera: that is, any moral basis offered for the United States having invaded and occupied Iraq?
Thanks to John McCain's "candor," we're done with all that.
You just got the real reason we're at war in Iraq, the reason we've always known but been called traitors for pointing out, shocking only in its unvarnished delivery. And there we are. It's a war for oil. I mean, obviously--and j'accuse, Senator.
Update: CNN's dismayed reaction.
Cross-posted at ProgressNowAction