This polarization has to end. Otherwise it could lead to disaster for the country.

[On April 14], the political blocs started to discuss candidates for the posts and formed a committee to discuss the details of the distribution of the posts. The committee met yesterday [April 15] and it...

I believe that we will succeed in forming the national unity government the people are waiting for.

We have to tell the world there will be no civil war among the Iraqi people. The risk is there.

has been far greater than we had expected.

There are other volunteers who take turns, up to 50 of us here.

We were disappointed, naturally, because of the very small, low turnout in many areas, … It made it impossible for us to be represented on the National Assembly.

The two main issues are security and the necessity for an inclusive election.

We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,

Perhaps we should make it into a school or a hospital. It symbolized the mentality of Saddam Hussein, and then it also became the symbol of everything that went wrong during the occupation.

I am confident we will succeed in forming the national unity government that all Iraqis are hoping for.

I don’t know much about him and a lot of people don’t know much about him.

You can imagine how everybody is scared. Finally it’s sinking in that something has to be done. You can’t let this thing go completely unattended.

It is in our interest to expedite the whole process.