Cleland wasn't drunk. He was just about to leave but decided to stay back at the last second and have some beers. He jumped out of the helicopter, saw a hand grenade, went to pick it up just as it exploded.
Anyway Cleland is a fricking joke. Coulter twice has already refuted this nonsense of him being a hero. He is a bitter man and I agree with EEE that he's letting himself be used by the Democrats.
I was just thinkin. Why should we listen to someone who blew himself up with a grenade.