Before he left, Bremer enacted laws that radically transformed the Iraqi economy and in the process violated yet another set of international laws—the Hague conventions of 1907 that state an occupying power just can't do that. By making the repeal of those laws pursuant to an overwhelming majority of U.S.-appointed puppets, the beneficiaries of the Bremer laws—U.S. companies—are set to strip Iraq of its economic independence.
