McCain admits oil is a motive to send troops to Middle East

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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.  

Read about this on MSNBC’s First Read and watch the video at the Huffington Post.  

After being given a way out by saying he was somehow confused with the first Gulf War, McCain again repeated his assertion.

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