The Daily Telegraph on the Cannes premier of The Revenge of the Sith: “Lucas surprisingly injected a note of controversy by noting the parallels between the Star Wars stories and real-life conflicts. He recalled he had first conceived of the saga at the time of the Vietnam War and the Nixon era. “‘The issue was: how does a democracy turn itself over to a dictator?’ he said. ‘When I wrote it, Iraq didn’t exist [as an issue]. We were funding Saddam Hussein, giving him weapons of mass destruction. We didn’t think of him as our enemy. “‘This really came out … Continue reading Star Anti-Wars