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Splitting Up Iraq Debate: Meet the Guests

by Hermela Aregawi @HermelaTV June 12, 2015 12:30PM ET

Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi, Ambassador Peter Galbraith, and Iraqi-American political analyst Raed Jarrar debate

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Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi

Former Iraqi Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations 

Helped draft the 2004 Iraqi constitution

 

[Splitting up Iraq] would be a disaster for the people of Iraq. It would be a disaster in the region. It would be a disaster for American foreign policy and its interests in the region.

Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi

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Ambassador Peter Galbraith

Former Advisor to Kurdistan Regional Government

Author, "The End of Iraq"

 



The reality is the country has split up. The Kurds in the North have what is in all regards an independent state.

Ambassador Peter Galbraith

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Raed Jarrar

Government Affairs Manager, American Friends Service Committee

Iraqi-American political analyst 

Peace activist  

 

If there is a newer generation [of Iraqis] that would say… "I'm actually okay with separation", that is a result of a series of war crimes and disasters.

Raed Jarrar

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