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Army officer from Honolulu refuses to report for Iraq duty

A Honolulu man, who has tried twice to resign his Army commission as an officer because he believes he “cannot justify or support legally and morally” the war in Iraq, will refuse to deploy with his unit later this month.

1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a 2003 Hawaii Pacific University graduate, is one of 3,900 soldiers with the Army’s first Stryker Brigade Combat Team at Fort Lewis in Washington state.

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In a letter to the Army, Watada wrote: “I am wholeheartedly opposed to the continued war in Iraq, the deception used to wage this war and the lawlessness that has pervaded every aspect of our civilian leadership.”

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