Bingowings said:

Father Skywalker said:
In other words-the Old republic had child soldiers.........
Hmm, that sounds so moral and nice and alright and good!!!!!!!!

Technically speaking yes and if we are meant to care for Artoo and Threepio were should also care for the sapient machines in the Confederate Army too.

They are programmed to kill they have no choice.

Yet we are supposed to cheer the Jedi (with their brainwashed child warrior monk novices) as they slice them into bits while they make weird comic sounds.

It's really hard to like the PT Republic.

Sapient machines??? They were just droids and robots, disposable objects . I have a theory that George Lucas made the Confederacy of independent systems (oh, such an American Civil War allegory-they wanted to leave the Union/USA-oh, I mean the galactic Republic), have an army of droids and robots so that he didn't actually have to show real people/soldiers getting killed in war, to make it light-hearted for the little kids/children who watch star wars, they just see people fighting robots, cartoonish fantasy violence, not like the true horrors of war......