U.S. Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada has faced the possibility of court-martial and jail time ever since he publicly refused to deploy to Iraq in 2006. He was the first officer to buck the Bush administration’s war policy, which turned him into a hero for opponents of the U.S. invasion. Watada won a partial victory on Wednesday in his long running legal battle when the government dropped an attempt to retry the first lieutenant for refusing his deployment orders. The Hawaiian native was first tried in 2007 by a military court, but the process ended in a mistrial. The Army then asked the Justice Department to pursue a case against Watada in federal court, but that effort fell apart.