  Doonesbury's DB Will Lose Leg in Iraq urlLink The AP reports : "A main character in the urlLink Doonesbury comic strip will lose a leg while fighting in Iraq, one of two strips published this week that feature soldiers getting injured in the war. "In Monday's urlLink Doonesbury, B.D., a football coach-turned-soldier, was injured after being reactivated in the Army at the end of 2002, following a losing football season.
"Later this week, he will wake up to find his left leg amputated, according to Universal Press Syndicate, the strip's distributor. "Doonesbury creator urlLink Garry Trudeau said he wanted to illustrate the sacrifices American soldiers are making. "'It's a task any writer should approach with great humility, but I think it's worth doing,' Trudeau said. 'We are at war, and we can't lose sight of the hardships war inflicts on individual lives. " "Trudeau said B.D. would learn to deal with his injury 'probably the same way so many wounded vets seem to - with gratitude for having had one's life spared, empathy and respect for those who have suffered worse, and a grim sense of humor indispensable to fending off despair.
'" Hey, Gary (and, while we are on the subject, urlLink Aaron McGruder as well). Aren't newspaper strips supposed to be funny? Other make believe cartoon characters slated for untimely incidents: urlLink Charlie Brown loses his combover after an aggressive chemotherapy treatment for a urlLink brain tumor . urlLink Marmaduke will endure urlLink stones in his urinary tract . urlLink Garfield will contract urlLink feline AIDS urlLink Dilbert gets a painful case of urlLink carpal tunnel syndrome . urlLink Andy Capp gets urlLink cirrhosis of the liver . urlLink Apartment 3G burns down. urlLink Mary Worth gets diagnosed with urlLink diabetes .
urlLink Brenda Starr reporter is captured by urlLink Al Quaeda . urlLink Dagwood becomes urlLink obese . and, in positive news: urlLink Lil Orphan Annie gets a successful urlLink eye transplant . 
