This season’s TV drama “24” features an in-over-his-head U.S. President who sets in motion a dangerous plot that he can’t handle, forcing counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer into a position of having to “take down” the President. Meanwhile, in real life, the United States faces a parallel crisis, a reckless President George W. Bush taking actions that have spiraled out of control. Only in this world, the call is for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.

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