# McCain says Iraq war is to secure Mideast oil

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 2, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-says-iraq-war-is-to-secure-mideast-oil/447806 "2008-05-02T21:07:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-says-iraq-war-is-to-secure-mideast-oil/447806/41 "2008-05-05T01:10:40Z")

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[QUOTE=elucidator]  
People can be so ungrateful, sometimes. Why, if we hadn’t of gone in and stabillized the situation, no telling how much gasoline might cost now!  
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😃😃😃

/bows to a master of irony.

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**Author:** ![guyblond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@guyblond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guyblond)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-says-iraq-war-is-to-secure-mideast-oil/447806/42 "2008-05-05T06:30:10Z")

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Didn’t Japan go to war over Oil?

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-says-iraq-war-is-to-secure-mideast-oil/447806/43 "2008-05-05T14:12:43Z")

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I heard some retired general on C-Span definitively say the war was about securing the regions oil resources. I was startled to hear it said so plainly, even though he wasn’t speaking as a representative of the Bush Adminsitration per se.

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