Who's Your Führer?
Perusing Google news headlines, I noticed a crescendo of Hitler accusations lately. Here's a round-up of recent politicians and pundits accusing each other of being Hitler or like Hitler.

4 FEB 2006: "[German Chancellor] Angela Merkel yesterday likened hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler, saying the world must act now to stop him before his country developed a nuclear bomb." (Who better to make that comparison than the modern person filling the same position that Hitler once held in the same nation?)

4 FEB 2006: "The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush," [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez said from a stage decorated with a huge red image of himself as a young soldier.

2 FEB 2006: "I mean, we've got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money," [Secretary of "Defense"] Rumsfeld added. "He's a person who was elected legally — just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally — and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others."

5 FEB 2006: "While stumping in Netanya on Sunday, Likud Chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu compared Hamas' victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections last week to the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s."

25 JAN 2006: "Fidel Castro directed a vast protest march past the US mission in Havana, leading many thousands of cheering Cubans who carried signs equating US President George Bush with Adolf Hitler and accused the United States of preparing to free one of the hemisphere’s worst terrorists."

24 JAN 2006: Senior has-been at the American Enterprise Institute Newt 'Gingrich said during an exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS, "This is 1935 and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is as close to Adolf Hitler as we've seen. We now know who they are; the question is who we are -- are we Baldwin or Churchill?" '
(When a person has been knocked on conscious, doctors often ask questions to confirm how badly you've been hurt such as what year is it, who is the president, what's your name? Gingrich thinks it's 1935 and he's not sure if he and his friends are Baldwin or Churchill.)

Here's one for Auntie A. 26 JAN 2006: "Some viewers are calling for censorship of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after the publicly-funded broadcaster juxtaposed the word 'Heil,' a word associated with Hitler, next to [New Canadian Prime Minister] 'Harper' in its evening television news broadcast, The National."
(Okay, this one's just conservative Canadians grabbing for straws. CBC apologizes and claims it was a typo on some background graphic.)

16 JAN 2006: Spectre of Hitler invoked by Tories, Liberals. Here's a more comprehensive article of various Canadian conservatives and liberals comparing each other to Hitler.

6 JAN 2006: The Chinese Communist Party is "evil like Hitler" according to some Chinese people living in New Zealand. (Sorry. I was running out of examples.)