FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Monday, January 29, 2007
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2007-01-29

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DIARY ENTRY — Monday, January 29, 2007
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 149 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Iraq war going very badly with civil war among Shia and Sunnis and
insurgency running wild. Bush popularity in USA way down. The war is dominating the
political scene in USA and particularly DC including discussions by Presidential
candidates.
Went to an interesting dinner tonight at the Metropolitan Club hosted by Dr. Ward (Trip)
Casscells in honor of the Surgeon General of the Armed Forces of Iraq - Samir Abdullah
Hassan, M.D. I sat next to him at dinner. Good guy and smart and tough. He explained
the disaster that USA inadvertently promulgated by dissolving the Iraqi military. The
Provisional government (Paul Bremer) dissolved the Iraqi medical corps and so now they
do not have any army hospitals or army doctors to take care of the wounded and sick
Iraqi soldiers. Also told me that the entire bureaucracy in Iraq (sewer, transportation,
utilities) was run by the military and so when Bremer dissolved the military he
completely destroyed the infrastructure of the country. Samir feels that this was an
amazing blunder. Also, by dissolving the police, we now have anarchy in Iraq with
criminal elements running wild.