Some U.S. Edicts Getting Chilly Reception In Iraq

[floda]

Some U.S. Edicts Getting Chilly Reception In Iraq
By RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN
And WALTER PINCUS Washington Post

June 27 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer has issued a raft of edicts revising Iraq's legal code and has appointed at least two dozen Iraqis to government jobs with multiyear terms in an attempt to promote his concepts of governance long after the planned handover of political authority on Wednesday.

Some of the orders signed by Bremer, which will remain in effect unless overturned by Iraq's interim government, restrict the power of the interim government and impose U.S.-crafted rules for the country's democratic transition. Among the most controversial orders is the enactment of an elections law that gives a seven-member commission the power to disqualify political parties and any of the candidates they support.

The effect of other regulations could last much longer. Bremer has ordered that the national security adviser and the national intelligence chief chosen by the interim prime minister he selected, Ayad Allawi, be given five-year terms, imposing Allawi's choices on the elected government that is to take over next year.


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The orders include rules that cap tax rates at 15 percent, prohibit piracy of intellectual property and ban children younger than 15 from working. Bremer also ordered a new traffic code that stipulates the use of a car horn in "emergency conditions only" and requires a driver to "hold the steering wheel with both hands."

much more..

http://www.ctnow.com/news/nationworld/hc-bremer0627.artjun27,1,4559079.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld

[Disturbed]

1. Yeah, Full Sovereignty.

Full of crap, that is!!!!



Full Sovereignty?

"Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials.


Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements."



http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html

[leftchick]

3. and bremer thinks the resistance in Iraq will accept this no doubt...

What a fool...

[izzie]

2. The car business should be fun.

Will they put a police man in every car or what?

[R Hickey]

4. Hold the steering wheel with both hands? I don't even do that here.

Oh, aren't the Bush nation builders benevolent? Are seat belts required too? What about helmets for motorcycles? Lets put that in their Constitution. They'll love us for these new freedoms.

What about the drug war? We should outlaw pot in the Iraqi constitution, too. After all, no one in Amerika's "democracy" ever got to vote on that issue.

What a total sham.

I forgot to mention that Iraq needs a law against burning the american flag. Perhaps Bremer should start their constitution with that.

[pinniped]

5. I fully expect chickenshit Bremoran to walk the streets...

and personally inform the subjects of his powerful edicts.

Do it asshole.

I think this viceroy thing has gotten to the moran's head.

[saigon68]

8. He'd last about 10 minutes if he "walked the street"

He last about 30 seconds if he gave advance NOTICE of his attempt to "walk the streets"

[moondust]

6. Unbelievable.

Gov't by Bushco edict and Bushco appointees, even capping tax rates on future oil magnates (Exxon, Chevron, ...). What a f'ng hoax.

"Why do they hate us?"

[Demeter]

7. There are words for this: CHUTZPAH, HUBRIS, IDIOCY

and standard operating procedure for the GOP

[bemildred]

9. Idiocy IMHO.

What a bunch of control freaks.

Anyone with half a brain knows our appointed "sovereign"
government is going to do what it likes, and unless we want to
depose them and appoint some new ones (which would look even
more tacky if that is possible) there is nothing Bremer or his
bosses can do about it.

[Gman]

10. Oh, but its not going to be a puppet government!

yeah, right.