by user Layla Crossposted from The HILL Chronicles In an article I previously wrote about First Lt. Ehren Watada, I had said he "tried to resign; the Army respectfully denied him. He said he was willing to fight in Afghanistan; the Army refused him again — a soldier can’t pick and choose where he fights. As his unit shipped off to Iraq, Watada stayed to face the consequences. His conscience, he said, had overtaken him. He told the world what he had privately told his superiors months earlier: that he believed the war was illegal and immoral, and he would play no role in it." __NOEDITSECTION__