Fallon Resigns; Paving Way for Iran Attack?

Despite his denials, Admiral Fallon's resignation appears to be due to some differences with the Bush Administration over the Middle East strategy. As today's WSJ points out, Bush might finally be realizing (after nearly eight years) that it doesn't make sense to have key members of your staff (or military) undermining your decisions.

More interesting, I wonder whether Fallon's resignation is due to the intensification of discussions about bombing Iran's nuclear sites. Some sources, including the European Commission Joint Research Center, are now saying that Iran could have a nuclear weapon as early as the end of 2008.

On that note, Debkafile claims that Admiral Fallon was also close to the leaked NIE report that falsely claimed that Iran no longer had a nuclear program - likely as an effort to dissuade any potential attack from either the U.S. or Israel. At a minimum, it's not a stretch to believe that Fallon didn't mind the having the NIE report leaked if it meant that world opinion would be more likely to oppose any attack on Iran.