Army officials say 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Japanese American native of Honolulu stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington state, is the first commissioned officer to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq, on the principle established by the Nuremberg war-crimes trial that he is obliged to disobey illegal or immoral orders. |
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