It isn’t fair to compare Bin Laden and Hitler. Hitler was after all Time’s Man of the Year 1938. I don’t think Time has ever made Bin Laden man of the year…

hitler commanded an actual nation of millions and had an actual army, airforce, and navy supplied with cutting edge weaponry and was a REAL threat to freedom. hitler conquered or controlled through allies and puppets all of continental europe but the neutral countries, parts of the USSR and africa and murdered millions through war and the holocaust.  over 2 decades OBL got a bunch of delusional fools to kill themselves while taking a couple thousand innocents along with them. so yeah, a “bit” of a stretch.

I think they just did that because their deaths were both announced on the same date. I don’t think it’s a comparison.

I wouldn’t compare Osama to Hitler, but I’m sure a lot of people would. If only because they might have meant Obama and pronounced it wrong.

How stupid. Bin laden and Hitler are similar in the sense they are both responsible for atrocities. But that’s where there similarities end

What is with baddies and facial hair????

That’s not the same. Not even close to the horrors that Stalin, Hitler and other dictators of the 20th century committed. They do the comparison for the shock value and to get more readers. This is why I stopped reading TIME a long time ago.

If bin Laden had the resources of Hitler he would have been just as bad.

Is this a happy “mothers day” gift, from government?

We need to invent a game called “which one is Hitler?” to clear up all the confusion caused by CONSTANT comparisons of everyone from Osama Bin Laden to the Obamas’ dog to Hitler. Here goes: Obama: NOT Hitler.
Glenn Beck: NOT Hitler
Osama Bin Laden: Getting warmer, but STILL NOT Hitler
Stalin: Closer, he’s got a silly mustache and killed millions, but he is also NOT Hitler.
Hitler: YOU FOUND HIM! it would be better with pictures.

I was always a little confused that they didn’t name Osama “Man of the Year” the way they did for Hitler. It’s not a positive distinction, it just means he had the greatest individual impact on world events. As fitting then as it is now.

Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler:
both declared dead on may 1st
both mass murderers of their own born religion
born 1 month and 10 days apart (not in the same year)
both leaders of an evil terrorist like organization
both shot in head (hitler suicide)
both hated by americans
both hated americans

At the time of the first one, Hitler was the most notorious mass murder alive. At the time of the current one, it was Osama. It’s pretty fitting.

i wouldn’t say they are comparing it more like just saying he’s dead.