Yesterday John McCain told a townhall meeting this:

“My friends, I will have an energy policy which will eliminate our dependence on oil from Middle East that will then prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.”

Luckily we also got video of this major admission from the Republican nominee.

So if we went to Iraq to “fight for oil”, then was it worth it? The war is going to cost us about a trillion dollars and we have lost over 4,000 American soldiers in this war. Now let’s look at the price of gas from before the war to today:

(Click for larger size. Via GasBuddy)

Sure it was worth it; if you’re Shell, Exxon or Dick Cheney.