Confused McClatchy reporter twists himself into a pretzel to bash Bush, then untwists himself and admits Bush's position is reasonable

Jonathan Landay, writing on McClatchy's Iraq web page 11/4, cleared Iranian president Ahmadinejad of charges that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Then he suggests Bush and Cheney are the untrustworthy ones:

Bush and Cheney's allegations are under especially close scrutiny because their similar allegations about an Iraqi nuclear program proved to be wrong.

Got that? Iran is cleared, Bush and Cheney should be under "especially close" scrutiny. But then Landay starts his contortionist routine. Mid-article Landay changes direction and says there are good reasons to be skeptical of Iran's claims. In the grand finale of Landay's contortionist routine, he admits Bush's position is reasonable.

Nevertheless, there are many reasons to be skeptical of Iran's claims that its nuclear program is intended exclusively for peaceful purposes, including the country's vast petroleum reserves, its dealings with a
Pakistani dealer in black-market nuclear technology and the fact that it concealed its uranium-enrichment program from a U.N. watchdog agency for 18
years. Many aspects of Iran's past nuclear program and behavior make more sense if this program was set up for military rather than civilian purposes," Pierre Goldschmidt, a former U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency deputy director general, said in a speech Oct. 30 at Harvard University.