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In 2010 the Defense Department spend $20 billion on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's the same amount as NASA's entire budget.


Sean Paul Kelley January 11, 2012 - 10:21am
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Wonder how the natives survived without AC all those centuries.


It is worth remembering that the Founding Fathers were all traitors.

steeleweed January 11, 2012 - 10:30am
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No body armour, no computers.

"In combat one should be very suspicious of painless moral choices. When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough." ~ Karl Marlantes

JustPlainDave January 11, 2012 - 10:54am
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You mean, according to the guy that...

...serves as director of a battery company. The figure's a pretty massive, beyond top bound estimate.

"In combat one should be very suspicious of painless moral choices. When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough." ~ Karl Marlantes

JustPlainDave January 11, 2012 - 10:31am
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I don't recall DoD denying the estimate. Do you?

Serious question.

Bad decisions make good stories.

Sean Paul Kelley January 11, 2012 - 10:40am
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Take a look at the clarification at the bottom...

...of the article. That reads pretty clearly as a denial to me.

"In combat one should be very suspicious of painless moral choices. When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough." ~ Karl Marlantes

JustPlainDave January 11, 2012 - 10:52am
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DoD $ bloat

Makes Ron Paul sound reasonable when he says we should pull our troops out of the empire. Of course, he would shutter NASA as well. Lets hope he would close down the listeners at NSA and the torturers at CIA as well.

tla January 11, 2012 - 10:56am
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