This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the…

Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.

— Yousef Saanei

The most important thing the federal government can do is actually sit down with municipal leaders and provincial premiers to talk about the challenges…

— Justin Trudeau

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers.…

— John Kasich

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were…

— Raymond T. Odierno

It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia…

— Anonymous

Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new…

— Elliott Colla

What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation, and lead…

— Colin Powell

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other.…

— Barry McCaffrey

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own…

— Patrick Cockburn

There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes.…

— Barack Obama

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for…

— Peter DeFazio

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we…

— Jalal Talabani

We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt,…

— Barack Obama

It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They…

— Richard Lugar

I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to…

— Joe Biden