Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Order No. 2 on May 23, 2003. It “dissolved Iraqi ‘entities,’ including the Iraqi army and intelligence services. This order threw the entire Iraqi army–half a million men–out of work at a time when unemployment in Iraq was estimated at between 50 and 70 percent. With […]
Category: quotes
5/23/2003
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) leader in Iraq L. Paul Bremer said: “On May 23 [2003], I signed CPA Order No. 2, ‘Dissolution of Entities.’ These included the Defense Ministry, all related national security ministries and offices, and all military formations, including the Republican Guard, Special Republican Guard, Baath Party Militia, and the Fedayeen Saddam. The […]
5/23/2003
Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Coalition Provisional Authority Order 2 on May 23, 2003, which abolished the Iraqi Army. “The Order had called for the payment of a one-month stipend to the cashiered force. Following the riots [by former soldiers], however, and under pressure from a number of Iraqi politicians, Bremer […]
5/23/2003
On May 23, 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul “Bremer issued a second decree dissolving the security apparatus and the Iraqi military. The orders effectively pulled the rug out from under the country’s governing structure and also removed anyone with any knowledge of how the government bureaucracy and the military functioned, leaving the Iraqi […]
5/23/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 2 dissolves some Iraqi and military security structures.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, May 23, 2003 […]
5/22/2003
“[T]he Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), which derived from the country’s oil and gas income… had been created by UN Security Council Resolution 1483 on May 22 [2003], which also created an International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) to audit the expenditure of DFI funds.” – Dov S. Zakheim, A Vulcan’s Tale, Page 208 […]
5/22/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “656. Discussion between the US and UK on the content of a new UN Security Council resolution began the same day. Resolution 1483 (2003) was eventually adopted on 22 May.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report […]
5/22/2003
“The United States acted swiftly to ensure that oil would remain dominantly a dollar commodity, by an executive order empowering Iraqi oil sales to be returned from euros to dollars. [President] Bush’s order of May 22, 2003 [Executive Order 13303], declaring a ‘national emergency,’ did not directly mention the dollar as such; but it directed […]
5/22/2003
“The UN Security Council had voted on May 22 [2003] to lift the sanctions on Iraq that were first imposed on Saddam’s regime in 1990.” – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 78 […]
5/22/2003
“The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was authorised under UN Resolution 1483, on 22 May, 2003.” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 106 […]