A military judge has ruled that Army Lt. Ehren Watada cannot use, as part of his defense, arguments that the Iraq war is illegal and therefore he has an obligation to defy orders to deploy there. Lt. Watada is undergoing a court martial and faces up to six years in prison plus dishonourable discharge from the service. So if he cannot make the argument that his orders were illegal the court is in fact saying that he must follow orders under all circumstances. This would seem to make the Nuremberg Defense viable. Perhaps those pesky Nazis weren't guilty after all.
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