Chalk up another clanger for gaffe-prone John McCain.
While out on the campaign trail last week, the Seething Senator told
an audience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzwboGFXrVg
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.
I see.
So if we weren't dependent on oil from the Middle East we wouldn't
ever have to go there.
So the only reason we're there is because of the oil.
Not so fast!
McCain quickly "clarified" his comments, according to MSNBC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24434071
"No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for
several reasons," McCain told re****ters.
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 im****tant than any other part of the
world," he said.
"If the word 'again' was misconstrued, I want us to remove our
dependency on foreign oil for national security reasons, and that's
all I mean," McCain said.
Okay, I mean, that makes absolutely no sense, but whatever.
It turns out McCain can prove that he had a much better reason for
invading Iraq than oil...
"The Congressional Record is very clear: I said we went to war in Iraq
because of weapons of mass destruction," he said.
Well that should make everyone feel a lot better.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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