Am I missing something?

Some posts ago, I pointed out that the decision to open almost all commerce in Iraq to foreign, private investment and ownership--a decision made by Tribune Bremer--was such an enormous shift of the economy of the country that one would think, in the interest of "democracy," it should be made by a duly-elected body of Iraqis, not by decree of the occupier. So far, there's been hardly a peep about this, which bewilders me.

Now, we are told that a series of conferences have been scheduled by "Iraq" with foreign oil companies, large and small, to judge such companies' involvement in Iraq's oil production, which was heretofore governed by the state.
Who is this "Iraq" that is doing these things? Where is the popular voting, the participatory democracy, in this decision?

This isn't democracy, it's government by fiat, just as was predicted by those who saw the Provisional Authority as a functionary of the Bushies and their business cronies.

Another question: Where's the analysis, where's the outrage?