I’ve always believed The Onion is hilarious and perceptive. And I even think I realized, at the time, that they were prescient when they published, on January 17, 2001, an article headlined, “Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over.’”

But, I didn’t realize just how prescient this article really was:

Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.
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On the economic side, Bush vowed to bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession, which would necessitate a tax hike, which would lead to a drop in consumer spending, which would lead to layoffs, which would deepen the recession even further.

*shudder*