Yesterday John McCain told a townhall meeting this:
“My friends, I will have an energy policy which will eliminate our dependence on oil from Middle East that will then prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.”
Luckily we also got video of this major admission from the Republican nominee.
So if we went to Iraq to "fight for oil", then was it worth it? The war is going to cost us about a trillion dollars and we have lost over 4,000 American soldiers in this war. Now let's look at the price of gas from before the war to today:
(Click for larger size. Via GasBuddy)
Sure it was worth it; if you're Shell, Exxon or Dick Cheney.
Iraq currently imports oil from Kuwait so they can work on the pipeline and the power grid. It's even worse than people realize.
Mccain wearing a Navy baseball cap?
if the Navy could do it over........ would the Navy take back Senator Mccain as a Navy pilot ?
if they knew what they know now
He did trashed 5 Navy jets and was finally captured by the enemy. what this piss, now he's out there now selling himself as a hero, and the media treats with as a war hero.
He may deserve some sympathy for his POW days, but he was captured.
but when your daddy and grand daddy an Admiral who's gonna ground him?
do you really want John Mccain in the presidential cockpit?
Sure the war was for oil. And sure it's been worth it. But not to us.
Taking Iraqi oil offline has allowed the prices to spike, with a little extra margin added for good measure. It's destroyed a competitor and ensured the greatest profits in history to the companies that are producing LESS than they were before.
So yeah, the war was about oil, but not in the simple and easy nationalistic way.
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