...a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver."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," McCain said.
Got that? If we had had an intelligent energy policy -- perhaps one that got us off our "oil addiction" -- we wouldn't have had "to send our young men and women into conflict...in the Middle East."
But wait, McCain later "clarified" his remarks, just as he did a couple weeks ago on whether Iran was Sunni or Shi'ite (or something):
"No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons," McCain told reporters.One reason was Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, he said. "But also we didn't want him to have control over the oil, and that part of the world is critical to us because of our dependency on foreign oil, and it's more important than any other part of the world," he said.
Ah, I seeeeeee! We didn't invade Iraq because of oil, we invaded Iraq because we didn't want Saddam to "have control over the oil." Sort of like when we supported Saddam to the hilt in the 1980s, so that other county, the Sunni Shi'ite one (Iran) wouldn't "have control over the oil." Or something.
P.S. Oh wait, McCain "clarifies?" again and says "we went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction." Is everything "clarified" now for ya?
Oh, well - this will be a good sound bite for the fall. That and the 100 years of war thing.