April Quote by Juan Cole

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some…

— Noah Feldman

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in…

— Dario Fo

When Saddam Hussein was eliminated, the Iraqi statehood and thousands of people from the former Baath party were also eliminated. Thousands of Iraqi servicemen,…

— Vladimir Putin

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing…

— Richard Engel

The Sunni Arabs began to realize that they had made a huge mistake by not voting in the election of 2005 and by not…

— David Petraeus

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of…

— Farnaz Fassihi

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

— Richard Engel

When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.

— Chellie Pingree

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq…

— Jimmy Carter

I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this…

— Lucy Powell

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

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

— John Kasich