During the past decade, the US suffered through some of the most compelling drama in its history since what many consider to be the stolen election of 2000(kellner 2001), an event that inaugurated an 8 year nightmare , the consequences of which we are still suffering. The Bush- Cheney administration began by pushing a hard-right agenda. After the September 11,2001 terror attacks on NY and washington, it rammed through harsh restrictions on civil liberties in the so called USA Patriot Act and began a disastrous war in Iraq in the name of protecting the US from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.