Tell me some choices where poor kids have other access to the college money that the military offers. I know of none. Sure, one can take out college loans and pay them off over a period of twenty or thirty years.
Check out the Pell Grants
http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,6-30-0-36318,00.html

Also, tell me - what takes more balls - some kid fleeing to Canada or some pro-war chickenshit finding ways to avoid something that some other person who lacks the means to avoid will surely have to step into.
I would say they are on equal footing