Thank you, Senator, for clearing that up...
We all knew it was true, but, like Aunt Sally's Alzheimer's, it's not something we talk about in polite company.
“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.”
-- Senator John McCain, 2 May 2008
Now that the presumptive Republican nominee for president has said it, it's on the record, and is probably all over the internet.
But if that's why we're there, how does it benefit us that the price of gas has tripled in the span of the GW Bush presidency? Oh, right, I forgot... it's not for the benefit of the American people, it's for the benefit of the investors in the oil business.