For something which is worthy of reading, if not discussion, please read first-hand, how veterans of Iraq and their families feel/have experienced/are speaking out about the mess Bush has made: click here. Scroll down and read...it doesn't matter a damn whether any of the kids had high school diplomas, GEDs or anything else. What matters is, in many cases, they were lured with all kinds of sales pitches (see the one about the twins and their friend whose recuiter coached him on dieting so they could sign him up) into an immoral, disgusting, undemocratic civil war umpteen thousand miles away. They are cannon fodder, all.