[GOPcapitalist]

Lincoln was very clear during that scene when Palpatine was speaking to the Senate. Not just the "grand army of the republic" line, but more so the main theme indicated in that speech - that the republic had endured as one united for a thousand years. Maintaining the union was the speech's rhetorical theme as well as Lincoln's, though true motives appeared in neither.

[GOPcapitalist]

Dixie bump.

[Jonathon Spectre]

I didn't think Hitler at all when seeing Episode II, but I most certainly DID think of Abraham Lincoln.

"We don't want to be in your Republic anymore."
"Then you will be MADE to be in the Republic. This violence is for your own good, nay, the good of us all."

So now we're all slaves. Thanks Abe.

[TheDon]

I think it is safe to say that those words coming from Chancellor Hitler's lips were a bit more disingenuous than when they were uttered by President Lincoln.

[rmlew]

1. I saw either LR or Anti-War.com doing this peice the second the words "Grand Army of the Republic" were uttered in a preview.

2. Had you or the author of this piece seen the movie the whole article falls apart.

Chacellor Palpatine set up the entire situation. He ordered the creation of the clones.
At the end, it was revealed that the Rebel Jedi, Lord Dooku, worked for the Sith Lord, who also happens to be... Palpatine.

Palpatine's agents created teh insurrection, pluss both armies.

As for the rest of this assinine piece, comparing the GAR of the movie to the Civil War is silly. The citizen soldiers who violunteered and/or were drafted are very different from the clones. The same holds for the Rebel army. I woyuld never call the Confederate infantryman an automaton, but following the (il)logic of the article the author does.

[shuckmaster]

Tyrant Ping!

[rebelsoldier]

Informed persons realize that Lincoln's declaration of war on his own country based on illegitimate and unfounded grounds was only the first step toward the dismantling of the laws and Constitution upon which the nation was erected in the first place. Thanks to this filthy violation of American civilization, we now have few sovereignty rights as far as states are concerned and even less individual rights, since once the breach had been made in state's rights the next logical attack would be on our sacred individual rights and liberties. In short, we citizens are the modern equivalent of chattel slaves, only this time the government owns us body and soul and not private individuals. Hell, we don't even get time to sing and dance in the fields at the end of the day. Thanks, "Father" Ape.