Before Quote by Richard Engel

The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the…

— James Clapper

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

Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq is clearly a 'client' state of the West, of Turkey and to some extent, Israel. It is shamelessly capitalist,…

— Andre Vltchek

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

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The…

— Patrick Cockburn

The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their own state,…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

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

Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias…

— Jack Keane

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a…

— Richard Engel

The Iraqi constitution is clear in two articles: one says that Iraq is united, and the second one prevents any legislation or acts that…

— Haider al-Abadi

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country…

— Brent Scowcroft

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

— Norman Schwarzkopf