The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.

That's more than NASA's budget. ( $18.7 billion requested 2012) It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.

"When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in the world — escorting, command and control, medevac support — when you throw all that infrastructure in, we're talking over $20 billion," Steven Anderson tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin. Anderson is a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. David Patreaus' chief logistician in Iraq......

Perhaps GWB should have said in 2001: "We plan, before the end of the next decade, to spend more on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan than it cost to put a man on the moon, it is vital to our national interests, security and my re-election as War President to do so!" The Bush Base doesn't know what we spend each year on A/C in Iraq/Af as the news is not reported on Fox news, just 'liberal' NPR, which the GOP would like to throw in the trash bin.