No matter how carefully they craft their official rhetoric, politicians occasionally reveal their true ideas in off-the-cuff exchanges. John McCain just had one of those moments, suggesting that the attack on Iraq and subsequent occupation was, ummmm, about the oil. Gosh, could those crazy lefties have been right after all?
“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 — that will then prevent us — that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East,” McCain said.
