Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki said Sunday that politicians are to blame for the country’s Sunni-Shiite strife.

Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki said Sunday that politicians are to blame for the country's Sunni-Shiite strife.

"There is no problem between the Sunnis and the Shiites as communities, but rather between us the politicians -- we think as Sunnis and Shiites, and we are driving people toward this doom, for which we will bear responsibility before God," he said.