So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own… — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army.… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
We respect the will of our citizens, whether they are Kurds or Arabs or Turkmen, but will not allow an illegal and… — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
For the first time the people of Iraq are united. Today on CNN I saw a Kurd, a Shiite and a member… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I do believe that the Kurds are in a difficult situation. They do have some American support. How consistent that will be… — Joshua Landis Copy Share Image
The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Iraqi Kurds, out of desperate necessity, have forged one of the most watchful and vigilant anti-terrorist communities in the world. Terrorists from… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
I think that, given the threat that ISIS poses to the region and beyond, as we have sadly seen in our own… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“They call the Kurds; 'The world's largest nation without a state. No need mercy! we may have "No Friend But the Mountains"… — Jahanshah Safari Copy Share Image
Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I feel pretty safe in saying that most Americans can't tell you off the top of their head who the Kurds are… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS…We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in… — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing… — Sam Richards Copy Share Image
There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds… — Raymond T. Odierno Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly… — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image