The US is arming Israel to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, if you believe the AP headlines.
Fact check: The 250 lb Small-Diameter Bomb (GBU-39) is not a bunker buster. It's a little shit bomb designed to be used in areas where the larger bombs we currently carry cause too much collateral damage. Its penetration ability is the same as other conventional bombs.
The truth is, Isreal asked for bunker-busters a few days earlier and was turned down. So the US sold Israel a weapon they can use to reduce civilian casualties in airstrikes in Lebanon, but refused to sell them weapons that they could use to start a war with Iran. But apparently that's not the reality that the MSM wants the people to know, so they're spinning the sale of the GBU-39 as something it's not.
I said it before, I'll say it again. Journalism is dead.
See also: Sexing up the headlines
Images: The SDB "bunker buster" vs. the GBU-28 bunker buster on F-15E Strike Eagles. Which do you think can take out a reactor in an underground bunker?
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