It is obscene to compare or even mention the Iraq war in the same breath as WWI, where the British alone suffered 100,000 casualties in ONE DAY in ONE BATTLE (the Somme). Total casualties, all sides, for the Somme: 1,120,000. That is not a typo. One million, one hundred twenty thousand.
Time editors are not ignorant. They are playing on the emotions of an ignorant American public to stir up trouble for our military in Iraq.