Straight talk John McCain on the Iraq war and oil

[smallyb2009]

You,d have to be a total retard to believe a word that this evil war criminal says,I dont know why these people seem suprised to learn that america invaded Iraq to steal the oil,People from all over the World have being saying this since the illegal invasion of Iraq started.

[basselyrique]

The average American can't even show on the map where Iraq is - what do you think that the US would care about mass destruction weapons (which btw weren't really found) or bringing democracy to the Iraqis?

[racenemo]

Who didn't know 911 was a "Carte Blanche" to go and get the oil

[dhymers]

12 million, not billion sorry, barrels a day by 2016. Anyone who says we went there for anything else is clueless. We've secured international oil companies a tidy little slice of world oil reserves just as decline is occurring in production everywhere else.

[dhymers]

12 billion barrels a day by 2016. Anyone who says we went there for anything else is clueless. We've secured international oil companies a tidy little slice of world oil reserves just as decline is occurring in production everywhere else.

[CasperCee]

"War for oil" is a vacuous leftist talking point designed for the terminally ignorant who don't have the fainest idea about geopolitical reality. In other words, the Democrat Party base.

[CalabrezSayZ]

@CasperCee Grow up.

[ikedirty318]

Duuuhhhh!!!! of course we're there for oil!!!

[unclegena]

FOR OIL?! no way ahahahahahha

It is still so unclear in the context

[Hr66785]

i am an iraqi and i was in iraq when the war did happend and trust me and iv said it befor here on youtube when people said it was about WOMD i told them it was about oil how did i know?will if u were here u would see it,solders open places for people to steal and then go in oil companys and not let one guy gets near them,thay sure did get there orders from up high thay r as any solder in the world would do Follow Orders.

[chfmn]

WOW WE WENT THERE FOR OIL hhhmmm I THINK thats been siad every where in the US for the last 6 BLOODY YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rchicks22]

he's got no chance in november

[paulalves]

Sure he does if the Republicans still have control of the voting machines... lol fucking dictatorship you guys have going on down there in the US...

[Starteller]

Agreed. Also the Republicans have control of the Law so even if the Democrats object the false voting the Supreme Court will be on the side of McCain just like they were on Bush.

[lilbluebirdt]

5 major states have issues right now with voting machines. Can we say political BS again. Paper trail is the only way to keep it acurate who cares if it cost more to have people count It would be legal and acurate. they spend more than what it would cost campaigning.

[layishevik]

Well at least the families of the thousands of soldiers and hundreds of 1000s of iraqi "collateral damage" now know what their loved ones have died for. Too bad they wont see a penny of the oil profits, service contracts or the production sharing agreements between the provincial governments and western multinational oil conglomerates. It seems on dick cheneys haliburton and blackwater are winners in this imperialist project.

[lilbluebirdt]

so true . My son lost several of his unit while over there. All for the sake of politicians greed. How sad. The saddest part is nobody can touch them under bush new laws.

[Solowizard]

THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS!

The republican nominee for President Of The United States who's supported by George Bush basically admitted that the war in Iraq is over oil. We didn't give a rats ass about Muslims in a Muslim Nation under bondage by a dictator. Hell, proof of this is how anti-Islam/Muslim we have become after 9/11. Youtube is flooded with ant-Islamic rhetoric.

[Solowizard]

Required to come back to the region?

Required by who?

I guess he means required by the new puppet leader we put into power IF WE WANT SOME OIL!

[StarryKid06]

Didn't McCain also vote against civil rights for blacks? That's unrelated but I'm sure any black voter would be interested

[lilbluebirdt]

Yes he did and he was against the Martin Luther king day. Then later appologized and tried ot make it right when he was campaigning. That was back in Feb of this year.

[diffidatio]

Confusing comment? What is so confusing about it? Most people, including most political analysts believe that securing that oil source was one of the top three if not top two reasons for the invasion. And it's not just about securing oil "for us", its about keeping it from China, who is a carbon fuel junkie as its growing... growing so much that it will soon surpass the U.S. So what's so fucking confusing?

[IanJD151]

McCain made a blunder and personally I believe that his team went into damage control to try to stop this before it went too far. This war was for oil he said but his team acted swiftly to interpret his comments otherwise. They must be getting tired of saving McCain from himself.

[rockondon]

they lied and said oil was gonna pay for the

911 lie bush did 911

[Trekkerjon]

Straight talk isn't working out for Admiral Sidney.

If you are a rightwinger, you can't admit that our invasion was for oil.

[BigBriggsFan]

Amazing... this ugly retard female reporter is acting as if Mccain's evil ass did not say we went to war for oil. Had Barrack said that he would have been beheaded. Ignorance and audacity at its finest. Most people dont care about the truth. truth is Bin laden has been dead for years and Bsh and the whole 911 shit was what they planned to have people want to go after the oil thinking the muslims caused 911. This shit is an Old Twilight Zone episode. Wake the Fuck up Nincumfuknpoos.

[MystikWizard]

Diagree completely, BigBriggsFan. You can tell by her facial reactions that she isn't buying McCain's bullshit, but they are doing their best to simply "report" what McCain said, while leaving the viewers the chance to interpret.

[MinuteMan91112]

It was not always about the oil!! =DOAkdaNWmqM

[JakiiRSM]

minuteman91112 Do some more research. Iraq war was ALL about oil! Iraq has the world's second largest proven oil reserves. The four giant firms located in the US and the UK have been keen to get back into Iraq, from which they were excluded with the nationalization of 1972. Since the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, with Washington running the show, "friendly" companies expected to gain most of the lucrative oil deals that would be worth hundreds of billions of dollars in profits.

[oak71]

McClain is confused...understandable. He looks as tired and worn out as Bush's failed policies. He should retire because he really needs the rest.

[madmax0]

mcclain made a big slip up saying the truth clearly and then try to cover it up with the gulf war

[hillbillybeachboy]

Oil? Yeah we brought back a bunch. LMAO

Make a list of the enemies of Israel. Check them off one by one. Iran, you're next.

[macadomus]

Tell me something I didn't know MCCain. I love old folks they tell it like it is. Fox is not even going to touch this story because it would cause huge consequence. It doesn't matter you know and I know whats going on.

[MinuteMan91112]

What the hell is McCain saying here?? How did this guy ever get the GOP nomination?? These statements will have huge consequences! We're all being led into a massive world war and it's not really about oil!!

[MinuteMan91112]

WTF??...How can a war hero shit on the graves of Americans who died in the first gulf war and all of those since 2003?? It was never about oil!! These statements will have huge consequences!

[guffagrin]

war hero HAHAHAHA. The Vietnamese named him the singing bird because he told them everything they wanted to know while being held captive. Don´t listen to that propaganda.

[madmax0]

it was always about the oil

[oak71]

Yes and they have certainly cashed in on it. I am sure the oil execs have rewarded Bush/Cheney for there mission accomplished....

[MinuteMan91112]

It was not always about the oil madmax. Years and years of video say that it was not about oil! The left has always said it was about oil. Now, McCain throws in with the left! This is crazy!

[Tereeb11]

DID the fucking FOX news display this video???????

Does anybody have any idea about it???

[JakiiRSM]

geeeeez tereeb11 Get real. Do you really think FOX would air this? They are a very selective news agency, and I use the word news loosely. They are a front for the Republican party. And if they did they would embellish it with BS rationalizations, knowing the neocons listening would buy it, as they buy into anything!

[Neoconhater]

Yes, the old fascist tactic of calling dissenters the enemy within. The "with us or the terrorists" line'o neocon bull is pathetic, McWarmonger will just continue the madness.

[McBush08]

Iraqis are not terrorists, we are in there land, SORRY BUT WE ARE TERRORIST! G.Bush start the war on Person War & OIL! "They were trying kill my father, George H. W. Bush" I say it CNN 2001!

[Tereeb11]

Alogia

YOU didn't understand me right.'

There are 51 US pigs were killed in Iraq, and when the Americans see the news, they say

"Terrorist killed brave soldiers,"

I hope I made it clear

[Tereeb11]

were killed last month

[Tereeb11]

Finally, YOU admitted that you killed my people for OIL.

ALL what I want you(Americans) to do is DON'T call the IRAQIS who fight you back in IRAQ as terrorists, please, PLEASE??????? IS this fine with you?

[JakiiRSM]

Trouble with your complaint as usual tereeb11is that it is Iran who is one of the major players in the war, and others came from outlying countries. The disgusting Iraq war was all about oil, thanks to George Bush, McCain is correct. The American people were unfortunetly not told this. So do not blame all the American people for it, we didn't all vote for him. I personally feel he ought to be in jail.

[jastheswift2]

the neocons should have picked a better puppet-like alan keyes, who is for the war and much smarter than mccain

[tadpole2919]

This old fuck is going to torpedo the republicans because of his "misspeaks" Look at these snakes trying to cover for his ass. This is HUGE!!!!!!! It exposes the fact that this terrorism and fear shit that they have been pushing is bullshit. I cannot wait for the media to quit trying to stretch out this democratic campaign and focus on john Mccain. This will be a fucking landslide.

[youngflymista]

It is blatantly clear that he said that we went to Iraq for oil. If I don't see this comment getting wall to wall coverage on every news station like this stupid irrelevant Pastor Wright story, I'm going to flip.

People We can't allow the mainstream media to briefly just glance over this and then segway back into some distraction like rev wright.

This is the single most important comment of this campaign. Bombard the main stream media with emails.

[bbpenney]

Amen

[McBush08]

26000 hurt & 4000+ US Dead & 400,0000+ Iraq's Dead fot Oil? What is wrong our Goverment! God Dont like that!

[StraightShooter01]

Frickin "My Friends ..." is he aware how NAUSEATING that makes Americans feel when they know damn well he doesnt have a clue who you are or what you care about

[JakiiRSM]

straightshooter01 I agree, it makes me sick everytime he uses that term 'my friends.' A condescending arrogant assumption of his. Does he have any idea just what a friend is?

[StraightShooter01]

Left Wing Democratic Liberal conspiracy eh?

DAMN YOU REPUBLICANS - NEVEr AGAIN

[StraightShooter01]

Who else was in the Republican Nomination process? McCain is UNELECTABLE - 4000+ and counting American soldiers DEAD to line the pockets of Oil Corporations? Huckabee just put his campaign on hold right?? Stop the PRESSES - Republicans CONFESS to OIL WAR!!!!

[JakiiRSM]

Great straightshooter01 let's throw Cheney and Bush's butts in jail along with Karl Rove. While we're at it grab Rumsfeld. I think we the people need to do it to show the rest of the world we will not put up with their lies and disapprove of what they did. Maybe a start in mending fences out there, and show future US leaders we mean business.