Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Order No. 39 on September 19, 2003. “It includes the following provisions: (1) privatization of Iraq’s state-owned enterprises; (2) 100 percent foreign ownership of Iraqi businesses; (3) ‘national treatment’–which means no preferences for local over foreign businesses, which has allowed for a U.S. corporate invasion of Iraq; (4) unrestricted, tax-free remittance of all profits and other funds; (5) forty-year ownership licenses; and (6) the right to take legal disputes out of Iraq’s courts and into international tribunals. More than any other Order, it fully embodies the Bush Agenda in Iraq: the creation of a U.S. corporate haven that will act as a model and jumping-off point for the rest of the region.”
– Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Pages 211-212