In case anyone missed it, here's what McCain said last night in trying to deride Biden for not supporting the first Iraq war (my bold):
He voted against the first Gulf War. He voted against it and, obviously, we had to take Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait or it would've threatened the Middle Eastern world supply.
So the truth comes out of a Republican's mouth when he's not paying attention. Bush One told us we went to war to stop Iraqi soldiers from bayonetting preemies in their incubators, but we all knew the real truth. And now McCain has admitted it publicly.
What does that tell you about their morality? What does that tell the families of the soldiers who perished?
And 10 years from now, will the second Iraq war just be another throwaway line from some Republican on how it was a war to secure the world's second largest oil fields for U.S. companies as supplies were dwindling elsewhere?
There was still part of me that held some regard for McCain. But he's as ugly a Republican/conservative/neocon as it gets. More than anything else, to me this shows the complete lack of morality of the Republican Party.
It also re-affirms in my mind what this election is really about -- oil. Do the oil companies get to continue to control our government and its energy, environmental and foreign policy or do the people finally wrest control and get a government that serves their needs, not Exxon's?
And I loved Obama calling out the oil companies specifically for not paying their fair share of taxes. IMO, we should nationalize them so we get their profits and they no longer have the influence over our national life. Bye-bye to the hold of the "military/industrial complex".