WHAT DID THE DEPARTURE OF ADMIRAL FALLON SIGNIFY?

Gates has said that it is "ridiculous" to take Fallon’s resignation as a sign that the chances of our making war on Iran have increased. Does that mean that from where Gates sits the chances are already so great that any misgivings expressed by Fallon come too late to make a difference? Or that they are obviously too low? But that is not obvious to the public, who have not been given periodic assessments in depth by the media of what is really going on in thinking by the Bush Administration about making war on Iran. Are we being sleep-walked into a war likely to be even more catastrophic than Bush and Cheney’s adventure in Iraq?