"We had to destroy the city in order to save it."

Why do I get the feeling that we're going to hear a similar line to this quote from a US officer (after the leveling of Hue in 1968) following the upcoming battle in Falluja? The US has already taken out countless homes and killed innocent civilians with "precision strikes" but now 10,000 troops are forming a barrier around Falluja and ready to win it one way or another. Without an independent US press operating in Iraq, our news is being filtered through the Pentagon which we already know covers its own ass. People can spin it any way they like but killing civilians and destroying their houses will not win over the local populations and will only at best be a short term victory. With all of the talk about "moral values" I would like to know where the hell the American moral values are in Iraq. They're surely not in the US military or in the White House. This war and the execution of this war is morally wrong.