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After four decades, cartoonist Garry Trudeau is still creating the Doonesbury comic strip. He tells Kurt his Vietnam-era strips were a counterculture fantasy, and what he most wants in his present-day depictions of the lives of injured Iraq War veterans is to get it right.

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