Yesterday, McCain basically admitted we're in Iraq for oil:

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.

Obviously, if it will prevent conflict "again," it means we did it before. McCain is now trying to claim he meant the 1991 war in Iraq, not the present occupation.

That doesn't pass the laugh test. And of course, McCain voted for that one too.)

Further, McCain is not the first Republican to make the admission. As noted here last year, good 'ol Sen. Larry Craig made it quite plain:

...what happens when 54 percent of the world's oil supply goes to risk with a collapse of the region. And this is a reality check that we only talk about in hushed terms, because we don't like to talk about our dependency on a part of the world that is so unstable.