It seems Hitler wasn't enough, now it's Brezhnev. Der Spiegel via ABC (Australia) reports Bush policies compared to those of Soviet leader:
Another German official is reported to have compared US President George W Bush less than favourably with an historic figure.Dear Klaus. If you are completely bereft of clues, you should shut your whining schnitzel hole. I'm sure the Czechs are really pleased with you impugning the memory of the Czech freedom fighters by equating them with Saddam Hussein. As for the USA, you merely add credence to the Euroweenie stereotype.
Der Spiegel magazine says German Foreign Ministry official Klaus Scharioth described Mr Bush's security policies as similar to those of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
In particular, the magazine said he compared Mr Bush's policies to Mr Brezhnev's actions while putting down the Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia in 1968, which Moscow justified in terms of quelling a threat to world peace.
