Daily Inspiration Quote by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Al-Sahaf is doing what regime spokespeople do best: turning a collapsing security narrative into a moral math problem where violence becomes the inevitable, almost natural weather of politics. The phrase "simple fact" is a tell. It’s not simplification; it’s preemptive foreclosure. Complexity, doubt, and competing accounts are declared illegitimate before they can enter the room.

The core move is linguistic quarantine. "Foreigners inside a country which has rejected them" recasts occupying forces as trespassers against a unified national will, compressing a messy field of Iraqi perspectives into a single verdict. That framing is meant to make resistance not just understandable but compulsory. Once you accept the premise, the rest follows like a grim syllogism: rejection leads to omnipresent hostility; hostility leads to bullets; bullets lead to more resistance. The passive imagery of being "rained down" with bullets is strategic, too. Rain is impersonal, unavoidable, atmospheric. It implies that violence is not a choice by identifiable actors but an ambient consequence of illegitimate presence.

There’s also an implicit warning disguised as prediction. Saying attacks "will only go up" performs two jobs: it threatens opponents while insulating the speaker from accountability. If violence spikes, he can claim foresight; if it doesn’t, he can blame media distortions or temporary tactical lulls. As a public servant speaking in wartime, al-Sahaf’s intent isn’t to persuade skeptics so much as to stabilize an audience under siege by uncertainty: give them a coherent villain, a coherent "people", and a coherent future that makes endurance feel like strategy rather than chaos.