Battlestar Galactica Takes on the Bush Administration

Insurgencies, suicide bombers, torture,secret prisons, denial of habeus corpus, bad guys who use religion to further their evil efforts. Hmm...seems like some sci-fi writers having been reading the news. Now, is it just me or is this the first time someone has had the balls to tackle these subjects in fiction, of any kind? I mean, taking the suicide bomber and making him a good guy? That takes some serious balls.