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At a recent stump speech, John McCain gave us some straight talk:

“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.”

Yes, you read that right — again– for oil–.   Hmmm, let’s think back . . . what were the reasons proffered to justify the invasion and ongoing war:

• Iraq’s aluminum tubes were intended to enrich uranium.
• Iraq tried to purchase uranium from Africa.
• Iraq possessed stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons.
• Saddam has mobile weapons labs.
• Iraq’s unmanned drones could attack enemies near and far
• Iraq would mount unprovoked attack on U.S.
• Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases.
• Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.
• Saddam is a bad guy.
• Iraqi’s want freedom.
• The spread of democracy.
• Iraq is part of the Axis of Evil.
• Iraq was developing nuclear weapons.
• The smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud.
• Waging the War on Terror.
• We have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here.
• To make America safer.
• Saddam was planning on providing WMD to terrorists.
• Saddam was capable of launching a chemical or biological attack in 45 minutes.
• We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
• Iraq was 6 months away from producing a nuclear weapon.
• Mohamed Atta met with Iraqi officials in Prague.
• Saddam was responsible for 9/11.
• To liberate the Iraqi people.

Interesting, Oil’s never mentioned.  I wonder why?  Perhaps because it’s the true reason, and one so horribly poor at justifying the war that the Bush Administration had to obscure it with their ever-shifting rationale.  Let’s not forget that the Bushes are oil-men from way back and also that Cheney was the architect of the administration’s energy policy.

The irony here is that McCain probably just forgot to keep the O-word on the down low and let it slip that the paramount reason for war was oil.