But instead of quietly going home, Capp joined a group of other disillusioned Iraq veterans to speak out against the war — even though it has ostracized him from his family and friends.

“I have gotten a lot of criticism for this,” the Hackettstown, N.J., native said in Berlin Tuesday as part of the Iraq Veterans Against the War tour around Germany.

“But I’d rather be looked at that than to be redeployed to a war I feel is wrong,” he said.

Capp was joined by two other soldiers and a Marine sergeant at a news conference starting a three-day protest in Germany — supported by the American Voices Abroad peace group.

The group is also lobbying for troops to receive better physical and mental health care when they get home, and for the U.S. to pay reparations to the Iraqi people.

"Soldiers need to know that when they decide to resist, they will have the support and thanks of the global moral majority,” said Marine Sgt. Adam Kokesh, of Santa Fe.

On Wednesday and Thursday, they plan to protest at the U.S. Army base in Ansbach, which is getting set to deploy more troops to Iraq as part of the current buildup of American forces.

Their main objective is to urge President Bush immediately to pull out all troops.

“And when we say now, we don’t mean six months from now, or 18 months from now, or 50 years from now,” the group said in its statement. “Now means now.”

Bush has warned civil war would ensue if the United States “cuts and runs.”

But the IVAW argues that the U.S. presence is Iraq’s biggest problem.

“Immediate withdrawal of troops in Iraq is the only way to end the occupation,” said former Army Spc. Jeff Englehart, of Durango, Colo. “It’s that simple.”