[HOLY S**T!] The U.S. Spends $20.2 Billion A Year On Air Conditioning For Iraq And Afghan!

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, according to a former Pentagon official.

That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage from the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.

source
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414...r-conditioning

[Sugar Adam Ali]

That's absurd...


We need to just leave all these Middle East countries behind.. let the Muslims n Jews and arabs kill each other..

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

That's absurd...


We need to just leave all these Middle East countries behind.. let the Muslims n Jews and arabs kill each other..

thats an insane amount of money yearly to be spending.

if my math is correct thats somewhere like $300 billion on air conditioning alone since the war popped off in 2003

[GhostofDempsey]

When you want to know why we go to war with countries with our hands tied behind our backs, just follow the money and who is making it. Defense contractors, who also happen to be big Washington DC lobbyists, get wealthy on government contracts like this. Give you an example:

The contractor who provides meals to the military deployed in the entire Middle East charges the government $16 per meal. Doesn't matter if it is a salad or a plate of cheeseburgers and wings, they charge $16 per meal. The food is cooked prison style in huge batches, cheapest grade meats and produce that can be had. Now, $16 per meal x3 meals per day = $48 per day, per troop. Multiply that by the 200K troops we had in the region during the peak of the wars. That's about $10M per day, x365 = $3.6 billion per year for food that is low grade and cooked in bulk by third country nationals from Nepal who are making pennies on the dollar. Someone is making a big profit.

Now imagine how much these contractors earn for ammo, planes, ships, vehicles, communication, construction, weapons, and other support services. Follow the money to find out who was getting rich off the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

When you want to know why we go to war with countries with our hands tied behind our backs, just follow the money and who is making it. Defense contractors, who also happen to be big Washington DC lobbyists, get wealthy on government contracts like this. Give you an example:

The contractor who provides meals to the military deployed in the entire Middle East charges the government $16 per meal. Doesn't matter if it is a salad or a plate of cheeseburgers and wings, they charge $16 per meal. The food is cooked prison style in huge batches, cheapest grade meats and produce that can be had. Now, $16 per meal x3 meals per day = $48 per day, per troop. Multiply that by the 200K troops we had in the region during the peak of the wars. That's about $10M per day, x365 = $3.6 billion per year for food that is low grade and cooked in bulk by third country nationals from Nepal who are making pennies on the dollar. Someone is making a big profit.

Now imagine how much these contractors earn for ammo, planes, ships, vehicles, communication, construction, weapons, and other support services. Follow the money to find out who was getting rich off the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

kinda like the prison system work.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

When you want to know why we go to war with countries with our hands tied behind our backs, just follow the money and who is making it. Defense contractors, who also happen to be big Washington DC lobbyists, get wealthy on government contracts like this. Give you an example:

The contractor who provides meals to the military deployed in the entire Middle East charges the government $16 per meal. Doesn't matter if it is a salad or a plate of cheeseburgers and wings, they charge $16 per meal. The food is cooked prison style in huge batches, cheapest grade meats and produce that can be had. Now, $16 per meal x3 meals per day = $48 per day, per troop. Multiply that by the 200K troops we had in the region during the peak of the wars. That's about $10M per day, x365 = $3.6 billion per year for food that is low grade and cooked in bulk by third country nationals from Nepal who are making pennies on the dollar. Someone is making a big profit.

Now imagine how much these contractors earn for ammo, planes, ships, vehicles, communication, construction, weapons, and other support services. Follow the money to find out who was getting rich off the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

Totally agree.... nice post

[SouthPawHitman]

Idiots. Don't they know air conditioners have an energy saver setting?

[Willy Wanker]

Idiots. Don't they know air conditioners have an energy saver setting?

Electric fans and popsicles, bruh. That's how I roll in the summertime. Air conditioners are for softies.


Actually my apartment just doesn't have one. I'm just jealous and hating right now.

But I was serious about the electric fans and popsicles.

[Beercules]

Iraq must have sucked.

[HanzGruber]

This thread is incomplete until op talks about how marines are soft pu$$ys