New York Times Still Stalking Bete Noire Iran

Ray McGovern @ Truthout - From the scary photo dominating page nine of The New York Times of November 29, you can just tell from the look on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's face, not to mention the endless ranks of military officers standing in rows behind him, that Iran is determined to build a nuclear weapon. That defiant look should be proof enough that the Iranian president is a menace to us all. Right?

Never mind the doubting-Thomas wimps in those 16 US intelligence agencies who - so far, at least - have been holding out for what they call real evidence before reversing their "high confidence" judgments of three years ago that Iran had stopped work on a nuclear warhead in the fall of 2003 and had not resumed it. Read more.