Appear Quote by Richard Engel

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

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

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology…

— William Kristol

The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It was only…

— Yanar Mohammed

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

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

— Lawrence Kaplan

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

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

— Trent Lott

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

— Saddam Hussein

If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort…

— Barack Obama

The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government dropping bombs…

— Richard Engel