Rumsfeld calls for boycott of French wine
 US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday met Italian premier Berlusconi, and they issued a common statement calling for diplomatic dinners without French wine. "It is the patrotic duty of every member of the New Europe," Rumsfeld said, "to forego the old wine from Bordeaux." Berlusconi added that for example a good Toscana could easily replace the French wines until now almost dominant at finer dinners among diplomats.
The US embassador to Italy therafter demonstrably flushed a bottle of Chateau Latour 1996 down the toilet. Rumours, vigurously denied, said he had first replaced the original content with a cheap Italian table wine. Suppressed sobbing could be heard in the background.
The picture shows Rumsfeld and Berlusconi after sharing more than a few bottles of "remarkably decent" Italian wine. "The Germans are next!" the defense secretary yelled before being hushed out the door by concerned aides. Present journalists could not fully make out what he said about "sauerkraut" and "oktoberfest."
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