It was on NPR a few weeks back, by Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor. He was describing the kinds of attacks that were being launched despite the "truce":
And as a senior U.S. commander told me today, "We don't want to play fair," in the sense that if they can send a message by dropping a 500 pound bomb, meaning, sending a disproportionate message to the insurgents, then that is what they will do.
U.S. Strikes Continue in Fallujah
The use of disproportionate force for such a reason is of course questionable under international law, and, for that reason, official policy of the military is that the force being applied in Fallujah is proportionate. Said General Sanchez on April 12th:
The tactics being used in Fallujah are fairly straightforward. We've been attacking to secure the city of Fallujah, and we're running into active resistance. It is very clear where we're taking fire from, and where we're taking fire from we're applying the appropriate, proportionate combat power to eliminate that resistance. We are being very deliberate and precise in the application of that combat power to prevent any wounding or injuring of noncombatants in the area.
DoD Updates its Lies about Iraq, 4,12,2004
Well, I googled some of Peterson's Falluja stories. They're all quite good, imo, but these three stand out as highly relevant:
In that first story of his, the criticism you make about the US adopting Israeli tactics is given serious consideration. Whoa. What a recipe for disaster. Is that a military thing? Their inability to think and act wisely? You might jump to that conclusion, but then read through some of these stories, and get to this:
The moderate tone at the command level here is in stark contrast to the ultimatums given to insurgents last week to disarm or face a full military offensive, which stemmed from uncompromising rhetoric in Washington over the Fallujah standoff.
Op citera
Think about it. Rumsfeld is a war criminal for sure. He needs to go now.