Surprise!!! Iraq is about oil....

Like we didn't know that before. But now John McCain has acknowledged it.

"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," McCain said.

Of course, once pressured on the topic, he back peddled like an NFL cornerback, stating:

"No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons," McCain told reporters.

One reason was Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, he said. "But also we didn't want him 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," he said.

"If the word `again' was misconstrued, I want us to remove our dependency on foreign oil for national security reasons, and that's all I mean," McCain said.

Yeah, sorry John, my bad. I shouldn't assume that by "again" you meant...well..."again."

This shouldn't be surprising to anyone considering the 3 or 4 different stances he's had on the war in the first place. This guy has a hard time remembering what his positions were on the issues last week, let alone 5-10 years ago.