Treason in Doonesbury?

I was taken aback by letters in the L.A. Times accusing the Doonesbury comic strip of "treason," or something parlously close to it, simply because a long-running character lost a leg during fighting in Iraq. This sort of disheartening injection of reality would not have been allowed during World War II -- or so one protestor claimed.

Nonsense. Popular culture in W.W.II could be very realistic, even grim. To cite but one example, "The Sullivans" (a.k.a., "The Fighting Sullivans") made the recent Doonesbury episode look tame.

Maybe what Bush supporters really want is for popular depictions of the Iraq campaign to take their cue from W.W.II-era propaganda produced in Germany.