"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
I am no fan of Kerry, but when I first read that quote I assumed he was talking about the Bush Administration and not members of the US military.
Turns out if you listen to the speech in its entirety, he was referring to the Bush administration.