Gramps is losing it. John “Maverick” McCain accidentally told the truth and now he’s trying to spin it back into something that doesn’t make Bush look so bad. Good luck with that.

At issue was a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver.

“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.

“Again”? As in, “We already went to war over oil?” I thought so! But Bush said it was because Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. I’m confused.

The expected GOP nominee sought to clarify his comments later, after his campaign plane landed in Phoenix. He said he didn’t mean the U.S. went to war in Iraq five years ago over oil.

“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…

“The Congressional Record is very clear: I said we went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction,” he said.

Oil, weapons of mass destruction, same thing.