Tin-Foil Hat Alert!

Via Digby, we learned tonight that Bushco may be on the verge of firing CENTCOM commander Adm. William Fallon, replacing him with someone more 'attuned' to the Bushco world view. This is important as Adm. Fallon last year personally blocked the deployment of a third aircraft carrier group tp the Persian Gulf last summer, vowing

privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM, according to sources with access to his thinking.

& just in time for a new war w/Iran late September/early October, too. Hmmmmm...

update 26 March - Admiral Fallon is gone! Worse, Cheney was just in Saudi Arabia and now (22 March) we read:

RIYADH - The Saudi Shura council will secretly discuss national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts’ warnings of possible attacks on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactors, media reports said Saturday.

The Saudi-based King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology has prepared a proposal that encapsulates the probabilities of leaking nuclear and radiation hazards in case of any unexpected nuclear attacks in Iran, the Okaz Saudi newspaper said.

The Saudi Shura or consultative council plans to debate the proposal on Sunday.

The power plants in the south-western Iranian port of Bushehr were built with German assistance in 1974 and resumed with Russian aid in 1992, after it had been stopped by the Islamic revolution.