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Published Wednesday, November 10, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

President Bush supposedly will tap his lawyer buddy Alberto Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft as the U.S. Attorney General. Gonzales, as FOX News even reminds us, "wrote the February 2002 memo that allowed Bush to claim the right to waive international treaties when it comes to prisoners of war who do not represent other countries. Human rights groups criticized the memo, which they said gave way for abuses like that in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal." And as fans of Fox's TV show 24 would note, Gonzales couldn't even think up this philosophy before watching Kiefer Sutherland demonstrate it in plotline after plotline to great success. I believe the phrase you were looking for: life imitates art. Unless you were looking for the phrase: what in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks. Hockey, what is that again?