Failing Quote by Ahmed Chalabi

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.

— Lawrence Kaplan

Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation, ... We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza…

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi)…

— Peter Rodman

This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one…

— Adnan Pachachi

Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

— Richard Engel

Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.

— Dominic Raab

It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

— H. R. McMaster

Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it…

— Alan Wolfe

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60…

— Patrick Cockburn

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

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