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First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned military officer to refuse deployment to Iraq because he believed it was an illegal war, has won his three-year legal battle with the Army. With little fanfare, the Army at Fort Lewis in Washington state accepted the resignation of the 1996 Kalani High School graduate last Friday and he will be discharged during the first week in October. Rather than seek a second court martial against the infantry officer, the Army will grant Watada a discharge “under other than honorable conditions.” Joseph J. Piek, Fort Lewis spokesman, said “this is an administrative discharge...

By Mark Lisheron AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, July 20, 2007 Vincent Greene, an Austin artist, and Dan Frazier, an Arizona T-shirt vendor, have never met, but they have a lot in common. Both used the slogan "Bush Lied, They Died" for their work. Both have infuriated people by incorporating the names of Americans who have died in the Iraq war into their work. And both could face prosecution for continuing to use those names. Greene, like Frazier before him, is using his work to challenge a state law signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Perry that will make it illegal to use...

'Anti-war vet' charged with fraud Claimed he 'slaughtered' hundreds of civilians in Iraq Posted: May 22, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Jesse MacBeth A man who claimed in an anti-war video to have "slaughtered" hundreds of civilians while serving with the Army Rangers in Iraq faces federal charges of falsifying his record. Jesse MacBeth, 23, alleged in a 20-minute production by a 1970s antiwar activist he personally killed 200 civilians, many of them at close range, while on patrols with the Army Rangers during 16 months in Iraq before being discharged due to wounds. But MacBeth's discharge form contradicted his claims,...

An Army medic who fled rather than serve a second tour in Iraq because he believes war is immoral turned himself in Tuesday to face a possible court-martial. Army Spec. Agustin Aguayo, 34, turned himself in around 6 p.m. at Fort Irwin, an Army base in the Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles, said Army spokesman Ken Drylie. Aguayo has unsuccessfully fought the Pentagon for more than two years to be declared a conscientious objector and win a discharge. Aguayo, a U.S. citizen who was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, said he was not anti-war when he enlisted in 2002. But...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A peace activist was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for splattering his own blood at a military recruiting station to protest the then-looming war in Iraq.[SNIP}

"Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort". U.S. Constitution, Article III ,Section 3. "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or any under any state, who, having previously taking an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state,...

<p>A Santa Clara County jury found a war protester who served nine days in jail because she refused to divulge her name guilty Wednesday of blocking a road during a demonstration.</p> <p>Mallory Moser of Berkeley was arrested April 22 during a protest outside the Lockheed Martin facility in Sunnyvale. She called herself only ``Jane Doe'' or ``Greenie'' and was not released from jail because authorities didn't know her true identity.</p>