“Before [Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority L. Paul] Bremer left [Iraq, on June 28, 2004] he signed a hundred orders in all. Some were essential. Order 96 established rules for elections. Order 21 modified the penal code. Order 19 guaranteed freedom of assembly. But many others were aspirational or just plain unnecessary in a nation wracked by a violent insurgency. Order 81 revised Iraq’s laws governing patents, industrial design, undisclosed information, integrated circuits, and plant varieties. Order 83 revised copyright law. Order 59 detailed protections for government whistleblowers. Order 66 created a public-service broadcasting commission.”
– Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Pages 239-240