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Watada: failure to deploy, dereliction of duty and disobeying a lawful order
Those were offenses he was charged with, not necessarily charges that he was guilty of.
Watada's argument was that under the doctrine of command responsibility, he had both the moral duty and obligation to disobey what he viewed as an illegal order. Since there no objective evaluation as to whether or not the Iraq War was legal or illegal under international law, Watada's actual guilt or innocence of those charges is an entirely subjective judgment.
Choi: Violating DADT, conduct unbecoming an officer and violation of Army uniform regulations.
Those aren't really "crimes" per se, but wasn't he appropriately punished for all of those?
*For the record, I think that Watad should go to prison for the rest of his life and Choi shouldn't face anything more than NJP, but the question has been tabled to the Libbos that think these Marines need to burn. Let's see how many hypocrites we have on this thread.
I don't know what the appropriate punishment is, but the important thing they should know is just how stupid they were to allow themselves to be videotaped and have it end up on the Internet.
I dunno what the appropriate punishment is,