Objectors Claiming The War Is Illegal
- Ben Griffin – British SAS soldier who believes the war in Iraq is illegal and that the government lied about the wars conduct. He was allowed to leave the army with no charges filed against him.
- Malcolm Kendall-Smith – A British unit medical officer for the RAF who refused to deploy on the belief that the war was unlawful. He was charged with and convicted of 5 counts of refusing a lawful order. The judge in his case rejected the defense that the war was illegal, saying that the UK armed forces had full justification under United Nations resolutions to be in Iraq at the time of the charges and that a crime of aggression could not be carried out by such a junior officer.
- Wilfredo Torres
- Ehren Watada
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