Ahmadinejad's letter, and Reuters

Power Line notes "The apparent incuriosity of the mainstream media on the utterances of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is striking; his letter to Angela Merkel, to which [Victor Davis] Hanson alludes, has not been addressed since its text was released."

I was curious as to what had appeared in the press; the Detroit Free Press included a piece on the letter, but the remaining hits were overwhelmingly international. The hit coming from Reuters caught my eye, however, given the recent photography scandals.

Especially this part:

In the letter, the Iranian president did not repeat his previous assertion that the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, was a myth. But he said it had been used to weaken Germany, and he railed against Zionism.

Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the letter at the time as "totally unacceptable to Germany" and said it did not deserve a reply.

"I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust," Ahmadinejad wrote. "But ... some victorious countries of World War Two intended to create an alibi on the basis of which they could continue keeping the defeated nations of World War Two indebted to them," the English version of the letter said.
(Reuters)

Reuters goes too easy on Ahmadinejad, I believe.
Even while Reuters credits him with not repeating his earlier claims, they pass over the rather obvious subtext of Ahmadinejab's letter, which is clear enough even in the abbreviated form reproduced in the story. Review what comes after Ahmadinejad's big "but," recalling such oft-heard exclamations as "I'm not one to complain, but ..." and "I thought I'd seen it all, but ..."
It's slightly more obvious once we sort out the text that went missing in favor of Reuters' ellipsis:

I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust. But, does it not stand to reason that some victorious countries of World War II intended to create an alibi on the basis of which they could continue keeping the defeated nations of World War II indebted to them. Their purpose has been to weaken their morale and their inspiration in order to obstruct their progress and power. In addition to the people of Germany, the peoples of the Middle East have also borne the brunt of the Holocaust. By raising the necessity of settling the survivors of the Holocaust in the land of Palestine, they have created a permanent threat in the Middle East in order to rob the people of the region of the opportunities to achieve progress.
(Fars News Agency)

If he's not saying that the Holocaust is a myth in terms of an invented story, he's at the very least calling it a myth in terms of "an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution."
The Fars News Agency URL purports to have a full English text version of the letter. Give it a read, and see if you can detect Ahmadinejad trying to cozy up to Germany based on (he hopes) their mutual victimization at the hands of an unnamed oppressor.

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In a potentially related note (connected to the content of Ahmadinejad's letter, that is), "Mein Kampf" is reportedly becoming a big seller in Turkey. The Arabic title ends up as "My Jihad," as I understand it.