Sounds more like this was staged for a set up for the YearlyKos convention event. I'm not against the gentleman's freedom of speech about the war but wearing his uniform in public at that event could have caused him a honorable discharge.
From Rawstory:
A uniformed Army reservist whose appearance at the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago provoked a controversy over politicization of the military has attended at least one previous antiwar event in uniform, RAW STORY has found.
Sergeant David Aguina, an Army Reservist who has reportedly served two tours in Iraq, appeared in uniform at the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago. In a question and answer session after a panel on 'The Military and Progressives,' Aguina attempted to challenge the argument that President George W. Bush's troop escalation in Iraq was failing. One panelist, VoteVets.org Chairman Jon Soltz, publicly warned Aguina that he could face a dishonorable discharge for appearing at a political event in uniform.
For Aguina, it wasn't the first time he'd made an appearance in uniform opposing an end to the Iraq War.
"David Aguina, a soldier who has completed a tour of duty in Iraq, appeared at Chandler Park in military dress to support the war," reported the Western Courier, a student newspaper at Western Illinois University where Aguina is a student, in late March 2007.
Aguina apparently told antiwar activists gathered at the March event, "What the terrorists did to [a peace activist who was abducted in Iraq] just shows what the terrorists think of all these people right here. They would do the same thing to any of them."
RAW STORY wrote Sgt. Aguina via e-mail on a social networking site Tuesday, but has not yet made contact with him.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Yearly_Kos_soldier_has_appeared_in_0807.html
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