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Rumsfeld’s New Buddy

Today in the Department of Defense, Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld hosts an honor cordon to welcome Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini to the Pentagon at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

The “post-facsist” Fini once praised Mussolini as the 20th century’s greatest statesman. Can’t decide which snide comment to make …

1. Rumsfeld wasn’t kidding about Old Europe, was he?

2. I guess David Duke wasn’t available, what with having been just released into a halfway house from federal prison and all.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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