Suppose a gang of murderous thugs breaks into your home. They kill one of your children and rape your wife in front of you. Now suppose one of them is troubled by what he sees. He shoots the gang leader to stop the goons from killing your other children and from gang raping your wife and torturing and robbing you. Is he committing murder or is he protecting your family and the other families in your community?

A similar situation exists in Iraq today, only on a much larger scale. Yanqui goons are the world’s biggest thugs. They belong to the most murderous gang in history, the US military. They’ve shot and bombed their way into Iraq, committing genocide, rape, torture, etc. They now occupy it with extreme brutality, like the gangsters in the scenario above, but far more brutal.

About 100 Iraqis die for every yanqui goon that dies. When a yanqui goon shoots officers who give him illegal orders to commit war crimes is he committing murder or is he protecting the Iraqis?

The pacifist argument that fragging yanqui goon officers is murder – while these same officers are ordering the systematic genocide of a country, especially a third world country – is the foulest form of hypocrisy. Such “pacifism” is merely an excuse for cowardice, racism, nationalism, classism and loyalty to US imperialism.