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June 28, 2004
Bremer Turns Sovereignty over to Negroponte; Issues Another Bunch of Edicts
Right before handing the job over to Negroponte, a few days earlier then scheduled, Bremer rushed to issue a bunch of edicts which would be hard to turn over, and involve multi-year appointments to key positions, immunity for civilian contractors, among many other things.
This sham turnover is getting hard to blog about. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: “[Bremer] has installed inspectors-general for five-year terms in every ministry.... an elections law that gives a seven-member commission the power to disqualify political parties and any of the candidates they support.... a 30-year minimum sentence for people caught selling weapons such as grenades... banks to collect detailed personal information from customers seeking to make transactions greater than $3,500... rules that cap tax rates at 15 percent, prohibit piracy of intellectual property, ban children younger than 15 from working, and 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.’”
There we go! For once I agree with Paul Bremer III: urban traffic in the Middle East is really scary. And the number of people driving at breakneck speed, gesticulating with one hand, honking the horn with the other with barely a pinky on the wheel... Glad that’s taken care of.
Also, significantly “[An earlier edict by Bremer] states that no party can be associated with a militia or get money from one....” As Leslie Campbell points out in the same piece, that means almost nobody can run because “all the major Iraqi political parties are associated with armed organizations.”
And of course, ho-hum. The suspense is over. Bremer signed "an edict that gave U.S. and other Western civilian contractors immunity from Iraqi law while performing their jobs in Iraq."
It's grand to be sovereign.
Posted by zeynep at June 28, 2004 12:37 PM
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And thanks to Bremer's fascist edicts the colonial masters do have EVERYTHING!!
Getting older by the second but still in the way.
O&ITW
Posted by: Phil Ciccchi at June 28, 2004 03:29 PM
Wow, this is really scary. They're not even bothering to pretend it's not going to be a puppet government anymore. If they're that open about controlling Iraq, it begs the question, what are they trying to hide?
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