I just looked him up.
www.mydd.com/story/2007/1/31/93733/4980
It seems clear that the man, whatever his war record, is a right-wing political operative today who can't keep his story straight. From what I personally saw last Saturday, the Freepers were doing everything they could to antagonize us, and of course they succeeded. (Even two of the TL regulars with me yelled back at them. I confined myself to addressing one guy hanging on the fence yammering about "the troops" with a cheery "If you really cared about the troops you'd want to bring them home, my friend.") As I wrote before, it would not shock me to find that one or even ten morons were among the 100,000 antiwar protestors, but it appears that the whole spitting "incident" has been exaggerated if not invented.