But it tells you nothing about the kind of people who look for meanings in places where there are some. Lucas and Actors in this project are the ones highlighting said 'hidden meanings'. We are just commenting on these acknowledged 'hidden meanings'. Which apparently were not hidden very well.
Nonsense. As Lucas pointed out, the script was written before Iraq.
What brought this on was a group of French Fried Fools who looked at the film at Cannes and thought, "Oooh-la-la! He is talking about ze War on Terror." The media ran with it, apparently not using the same restraint as they did with the Paul McCartney Death Rumor.
And, again, we are talking about a motion picture where 75 percent of what you see on the screen is visual effects. Think about that.