Darth Chrenkoff
It turns out that George Lucas is a horse’s ass:
“Star Wars” director George Lucas says that although he wrote the original film during the Vietnam War, his six-part saga could apply to the war in Iraq. “In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,” Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere. “The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we’re doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.
Here’s Chrenkoff:
[I]f in your mind, it’s the United States that has slowly transformed itself into an evil Empire, and therefore, logically all those who stand up to it are our story’s true heroes, than I have to say that the Dark Side is very strong indeed, and I have crossed over a long time ago. If America is the Empire, then please prepare a black helmet and uniform for me too.
Hear, hear!!