What is Partition of Iraq?
In the years after the [[United States]] invaded [[Iraq]] in 2003, some people have said that they support the idea of '''partitioning Iraq''', or dividing Iraq into three (or more) separate parts (a Sunni Arab part, a Shi'a Arab part, and a Kurdish part). These parts could be loosely united as an Iraqi [[federation]] or be three separate independent countries. ==Support for this idea== [[File:Ethnoreligious Iraq.svg|thumb|right|An [[ethnoreligious]] [[map]] of Iraq.]] Support for the idea of dividing Iraq into three (or more) separate parts came from various prominent [[Americans]] and [[Iraqis]], including [[Joe Biden]], [[Leslie H. Gelb]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/opinion/01biden.html|title=Opinion - Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq|first1=JOSEPH R. BIDEN|last1=JR|first2=LESLIE H.|last2=GELB|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 May 2006|publisher=}}</ref> [[Peter W. Galbraith]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Galbraith|first=Peter W.|date=2006-11-05|title=The Case For Dividing Iraq|url=https://time.com/2900025/the-case-for-dividing-iraq/|access-date=2024-08-11|website=TIME|language=en}}</ref> Edward P. Joseph, [[Michael E. O'Hanlon]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-case-for-soft-partition-in-iraq/|title = The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq|date = 30 November 2001}}</ref> Khamis Khanjar, [[Atheel al-Nujaifi]], Rafaa al-Issawi,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-khanjar-insight-idUSKCN0YN4XF|title=Could a millionaire businessman save Iraq's Sunnis?|first=Ned|last=Parker|newspaper=Reuters|date=2 June 2016|publisher=|via=www.reuters.com}}</ref> Ali Khedery,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iraq/2015-09-22/iraq-pieces|title=Iraq in Pieces|first=Ali|last=Khedery|date=5 October 2016|publisher=|via=www.foreignaffairs.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/world/middleeast/with-iraq-mired-in-turmoil-some-call-for-partitioning-the-country.html|title=With Iraq Mired in Turmoil, Some Call for Pa