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The thing is that he is not the final arbiter of what orders are lawful or not. So he should not be putting out that he would refuse to obey specific orders, particularly those that he put out because he feels they are not lawful. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who would disagree with him on an order to arrest others, even if his belief is that it is for burning Qurans, is going to be unlawful.
A comment like that exonerates Nazi concentration camp gaurds/commanders and Japanese war criminals. I mean, by your logic they were not the final arbiters of what orders were lawful, or not. In reality, by the laws of their respective countries, what they were doing wasn't illegal and culturally, it wasn't immoral.