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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Iraq Comparison As U. S. Pullsback

July 3rd, 2009 • Richard Cochrane
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iraq-flagTuesday as U. S. troops turned over their responsibilities to Iraqi troops the Associated Press published a breakdown of key statistics in Iraq since the war began, drawing a line in the sand for comparison as it were including:.

  • Electricity levels have jumped from 3,958 megawatts to 6,020 megawatts across the nation;
  • Telephone lines have increased from 833,000 to 1,300,000.
  • Cell phones have jumped from 80,000 to an estimated 17.7 million.
  • People safe drinking water has almost doubled, jumping from 12.9 million to 21.2 million.
  • Sewage access has nearly doubled as well, rising from 6.2 million people served to 11.3 million people served.
  • Oil production is also nearing prewar levels with daily production at 2.44 million barrels per day compared with 2.58 million barrels per day before the war.

America has spend $683 billion; suffered 4,318 killed in action; 31,408 wounded in action; 37, 512 wounded by non-hostile means. 1,360 civilian contractors have been killed.

About 2.8 million Iraqis are displaced; 2 million live abroad mostly in Syria and Jordan up from 500,000 before the war.

Iraqi war deaths were somewhere between 110 and 180,000 a majority due to enemy activity. (An infamous,  now widely discredited “study” by Glibert Burnham and an ambarrassed Johns Hopkins University cites over a million “excess” deaths in Iraq. A figure widely if improperly cited.)

It is known that 423 academics and 139 journalist have been assasinated by terrorists..

Sources: The Associated Press, State Department, Defense Department, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, The Brookings Institution, Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, International Organization for Migration, Committee to Protect Journalists, National Priorities Project, The Brussels Tribunal, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

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