"Maybe it wasn't flattened liked you want, but what if this was a better way to do it?"
I'm not sure, how about you ask the parents of the Marines killed there, or the people beheaded in that city what they think about Bush's PATHETIC response to the burnings/hangings last April.
I'm saying that if we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on high tech equipment, let's use it.
Because the people in government are too soft to use measures used in WWII. I don't like civilians getting killed either but if our troops are getting mowed down (thankfully it was not THAT bad in fallujah although US troops did die) than leveling a city would be the only alternative.