Billions Quote by Patrick Cockburn
“Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the people. There are a very large number of people here who are on the edge of starvation. For those sort of people - a sizable chunk of people - that service makes them regard Muqtada as a sort of god.”
![“Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.” quote by Yaroslav Trofimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/326/yaroslav-trofimov-28338_assistance_because-no-matter-how-much-money-we-spen_1119407.jpg)
![“Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew his power from the first really important al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir, who was executed by Saddam in 1980, together with his sister. So it's really a family…” quote by Patrick Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e65/patrick-cockburn-28053_als_muqtada-belongs-to-the-most-famous-relig_1789273.jpg)
