From Hawaii, apparently ethnic Japanese (probably has no familial / historical ties to the theater in question). Served one tour in Korea, and is announcing his refusal to go for his FIRST tour in Iraq.... in other words, he's never been.
And yet he "knows" that there is "...wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of the Iraqi people" and "[his] participation would make [him] party to war crimes."
Well, if he participated in wholesale slaughter and mistreatment, it would make him party to war crimes. How can he claim that such would happen? Is he so out of control that if he goes, he'll perform wholesale slaughter? Don't think that's what he's saying.
The guy's almost certainly younger than me, how is he such an expert? What does he know, how can he claim to know what's going on over there? And why does he feel the need to hold a ****ing PRESS CONFERENCE??
Shutting up.