🧩 BND Motif Index · M1519
American blood on their hands
A war on a hostile regime is justified by its long record of killing Americans, the barracks bombing and the roadside bombs, so the war only answers a fight the enemy began long ago; the counter to a war called unprovoked.
- 2claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 0 center, 3 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Iran created a huge threat to the neighborhood” “Iran has been attacking us. Iran has killed American citizens and American military personnel on the battlefield.” “Iran has killed more Americans than any terrorist entity except Al-Qaeda on 9-11.” “they killed thousands of American citizens”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-02 “Iran created a huge threat to the neighborhood and killed thousands of Americans.” 2
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-05 “Iran is a terrorist entity that kills Americans and supplies Hamas, Houthis, and Hezbollah.” 3
M1519 · first seen 2026-11-02 · last 2026-11-05 · what this is · how the index works