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Has the United States gone to war in the Middle East for oil? That allegation has generally emanated from opponents of our military interventions in the Middle East, and it has been dismissed by the neoconservatives who have supported those interventions as far-leftist propaganda. But all that changed on May 2, when Iraq War supporter John McCain told a town hall meeting in Denver: "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."
Asked about this statement later in the day after he had flown from Denver to Phoenix, McCain ...