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To: sea_urchin who wrote (21914)	11/19/2004 4:42:14 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80994

Re: BTW, there has to be a good reason why an African-American beauty has been appointed to the position of Secretary of State -- and it ain't because of her honesty! Italy names Fini as foreign minister By Ian Fisher The New York Times Friday, November 19, 2004 ROME Italy on Thursday named a new foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, who once called Mussolini "the greatest statesman of the century" but who in recent years has worked to re-define himself as a more centrist leader and plausible candidate, someday, for prime minister. His selection to represent Italy in the world marked the high point in that public transformation from his roots as the leader of a neo-fascist party, the National Alliance. Leaders in the center-left opposition did not actively oppose his selection - floating around political circles for the last few weeks amid bruising negotiations over a tax-cut plan- and he has received praise from Jewish leaders who once shunned him because of doubts about whether his party had genuinely shed its anti-Semitic past. "It's impossible to know if it is genuine or not genuine," Riccardo Pacifici, vice president of the Jewish Community in Rome, said. "But in political activity, acts are very important." Fini, 52, an elegant dresser whose political skills are also considered among the most polished in Italy, was often named in the 1990s in the same breath as Jorg Haider, leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, as one of Europe's rising right-wing populists. But in recent years, and especially after he was named deputy prime minister in 2001, he worked with what is described as characteristic persistence to erase that label. That year, he publicly retracted his praise of Mussolini, and in 2003, visited Israel to denounce Mussolini's years in power as "shameful pages in history." That comment prompted Mussolini's granddaughter, Alessandra Mussolini, to leave Fini's party. Last week he visited Israel again, in one of several recent stops abroad aimed at burnishing his image as a key force in Italian foreign affairs. [...] iht.com Now, tell me, if Italy's Foreign Minister can carelessly praise Mussolini as the greatest statesman ever, why couldn't Condi Rice shower praise on... Robert Mugabe? Any Western politician can utter the wildest allegations and get away with it --provided he kowtow to Israel and its Judeofascist censors in the same breath (just ask Signor Fini).