text: NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis 
  http://truth-out.org/news/item/20929-nyt-backs-off-its-syria-sarin-analysis
  
  Since the entire press, the Globe included, disseminated White House claims as if they were facts (which is all this article is), it had a responsibility to report this, but chose not to.
  
  Its betrayal of the public is no less serious than that which preceded the criminal invasion of Iraq, and the press has much to answer for, and blood on its hands.
  
  “What is Iran’s role?”
  
  Like Russia, it is mainly trying to defend itself against a campaign designed to undermine it, which has attracted some strange bedfellows – Saudi Arabia and Israel. 
  
  The criminal war in Iraq empowered Iran by removing Saddam and placing a Shia government into power in order to play on the sectarian divisions the US and British deliberately created during the occupation, a bit of the old Colonial game of “Divide & Rule” meant to take the heat off of foreign troops.