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The Revelation to Peter

David Weigel | 8.2.2006 1:54 PM

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While digging up some articles from 2001, I found this Peter Bagge cartoon set in the faraway year 2006. Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, the Patriot Act had 5-year sunsets, and Gitmo had just received the invoice on its prisoner bunk beds. Prescient? Pessimistic? You decide.

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David Weigel is a contributing editor at Reason.

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