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The United States President, George Bush, has reminded Europeans of the heavy price they have paid for appeasing dictators and challenged NATO members to join him in confronting Saddam Hussein and fighting terrorism beyond Europe.

In a speech to students on the eve of a two-day NATO summit, Mr Bush compared the challenge of the Iraqi President to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, which led to World War II.

When Russia began issuing passports to Ukrainian citizens, it reportedly prompted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to compare the policy to Nazi resettlement of ethnic Germans prior to World War Two . . . Her words, the first time comments about the Ukraine crisis have been attributed to her, have given columnists license to play the "Is Russian President Vladimir Putin the next Adolf Hitler?" game.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told BBC News Pentagon correspondent Joan Soley that she understands the reasoning behind Ms. Clinton's reference . . . The Washington Post's Charles Lane calls comparisons to Hitler "the mother of all analogies" and such speculation as "a growth industry".

Whose name did American politicians use before anyone ever heard the name Hitler?