I could swear there was all sorts of tittering on the left when the first George Bush and others tried to compare Saddam Hussein to Hitler. This was a sign of “desperation” a “real stretch” etc. Somehow, it was silly fearmongering to call the head of a party (the Baath Party, not the GOP) which was modeled in part on the Nazi Party, who talks about Iraqis in exactly the same terms as the Germans used to talk about Aryans, who gassed his own people, slaughtered hundreds of thousands and launched wars for lebensraum, Hitler-like. But calling a president who said his favorite political philosopher was Jesus Christ, who talks about compassion constantly and won’t stop calling Islam a religion of peace a new Hitler makes perfect sense.