Legality of Changing Iraq Is Questioned

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040114/ap_on_re_mi_ea/changing_iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

WASHINGTON - The old Iraq wasn't particularly hospitable to foreign investors, but L. Paul Bremer III, the U.S. administrator in the new Iraq, is making it clear that times have changed — and a new era for outside entrepreneurs is at hand. snip

But questions are being raised about whether these and other moves are consistent with international law, particularly the Geneva conventions of 1949 and the Hague Resolutions of 1907, both ratified by the United States.

The Hague accord, for example, directs occupying powers to respect, "unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country."

Section 4 of Bremer's September directive, known as Order 39, states: "A foreign investor shall be entitled to make foreign investments in Iraq on terms no less favorable than those applicable to an Iraqi investor." snip

Scheffer says the Iraq's occupiers could be subject to civil or criminal liability under the Hague and Geneva accords.

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1. Bushco has no respect for international law

They'll bypass it just like they bypassed the UN using some lame excuse. (It's the fault of the French, or something similarly stupid)

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2. And it seems women

will be done in as well under Bu$hco only caring about profiteering.
See post on Iraq women protesting new laws.
The occupiers are liable, but who is going to inforce the LAW?