Penny, what Doug is trying to do here is apply a logical fallacy known as the argumentum ad hominem. A fairly good explanation can be found HERE.

The whole point of the argumentum ad hominem is to divert attention from the original statement ("war is wrong") by questioning the competence or moral position of the person making the statement. When the protesters say "we should not go to war," Doug doesn't want to argue with that. It gets him into the quagmire of trying to justify an untenable position. So to avoid that, he attacks the moral position of the protesters by accusing them of favoring Saddam Hussein, which is 1) not true; and 2) even if it were true, it would not refute the original argument that we should not go to war.

Philosophy 110 — Elementary Logic.

Don Firth