It turns out poor displaced Yucca Mountain workers aren’t the only ones having a hard time finding work. Some attorneys who worked in the George B. Bush administration are also having some troubles, according to the New York Times.

For example, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales — who presided over a Justice Department that legalized torture, ignored international agreements to which the United States is a signatory, fired nine U.S. attorneys, allegedly for political reasons and implemented ideological hiring practices in the department — can’t land a job.

Gonzales, according to the Times, told the Wall Street Journal that law firms are “skittish” about hiring him. (Gee, that’s a head scratcher.) He called himself “one of the many casualties of the war on terror.”

Another lawyer who … wait. Hold on a second. What did Gonzales say? That he was a casualty of the war on terror? Oh, hell no he didn’t! A casualty of the war on terror would be somebody who died in the attacks on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11. A casualty of the war on terror would be a solider who died fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a Marine killed by an IED following the (totally unrelated to the war-on-terror) invasion of Iraq or one of the thousands of civilians who have died in the Middle East thanks to insurgent violence. They are casualties.

Gonzales? He’s just a mincing, incompetent yes-man who abandoned any pretense of respect for the Constitution and then pretended to forget all about it when called before congressional committees. If the worst thing that happens to him as the result of his own bad acts is being shunned by law firms, he should count himself lucky.

A casualty of the war on terror. Who says that?