U.S. military spends a cool $20billion on air conditioning annually in Iraq and Afghanistan

June 27, 2011 by legitgov

US blowing job: U.S. military spends a cool $20billion on air conditioning annually in Iraq and Afghanistan 26 Jun 2011 The U.S. military forks out a whopping $20.2billion a year on keeping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan cool, it has emerged. The alarming figure is more than Nasa's entire annual budget and trumps the amount the G-8 has pledged to aid Egypt and Tunisia. It's even more than the clean up cost of BPs Gulf oil spill.