Admiral Fallon, former head of CentCom, the top commander of the American forces in the middle east aprubtly resigned on March 11, but we were assured it had nothing to do with Iran or any plans to attack.

Then, on March 19th, we were told that the Pentagon had shuffled Admiral Fallon out of the deck and that he would not be testifying to Congress about the state of play of our multiple military engagements in the region.

Instead it would be limited to the likes of Gen. David Petreus (the only commander Bush really listens to and only then because the General reads from the script Cheney gave him) .

Now, today, this - from the BBC interviewing him - General David Petreus:

The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday’s bombardment of Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone.
Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and rockets.
He said Iran was adding what he described as “lethal accelerants” to a very combustible mix.
There has as yet been no response from Iran to the accusations.

Coupled with Sen John McCain’s so-called senior moments linking Al Qaeda to Iran, do we see, what Obama campain manager David Axelrod would call “a sinister pattern”?
Read the full BBC report here