Some Stats From The 'New Iraq'

Statistics as at December, 2011.

• Judicial killings are running at over 600 people a year. 
• Extra-judicial killings by state sponsored actors are much higher, and still higher are killings by various violent factions.
• There are fewer than a third as many operational hospital beds as before the invasion.
• There are fewer than 20% of the doctors. 
• The previous two figures are against a background of three million maimed people in Iraq. 
• Available electricity in MW/h is about 30% of pre-invasion levels.

Obama's SOTU speech on Tuesday omitted to mention any of this.