McCain the Invader

John McCain said, “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.”

What, "Blood for Oil?" Can't let that cat out of the bag, so McCain clarified. Here is part of Robert Fantina's savaging of McCain's clarification, from Counterpunch today:

Not so, Mr. McCain soon ‘clarified.’ He wasn’t referring to the Iraqi War, now in its sixth year, and one of the major concerns of the voters in the upcoming presidential election. .... No, he was simply giving a history lesson, and referring to the Gulf War. ... “We didn’t want him (Saddam Hussein) 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.”

McCain's comments, the original and the clarification, both imply that he thinks it is okay to invade and attack another country if they have oil we want.