bulldoze

Whats up wit dat? Why not let the buildings remain for future use. It seems like such a waste to knock them down. Whats the reasoning?

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=452375 By Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya 12 October 2003 "US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of...