In a remarkable protest from inside the ranks of the military, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has become the Army's first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to fight in Iraq on grounds that the war is illegal. The 28-year-old announced his decision not to obey orders to deploy to Iraq in a video press conference June 7, saying, "My participation would make me party to war crimes."
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Read Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith's Nation online exclusive on Watada's case.
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Listen to Watada discuss his reasons for opposing the Iraq war with Laura Flanders on the June 14 edition of RadioNation.
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