ok, I wanted to try A connection that coul tie up the loopholes and bridges on how, what we would get in a "Clone War"
so my take on things, was that (some) Jedi search for suited candidates, that have a decent force-sensibility and maybe other traits that are beneficial for cloning ...
on the other hand, this could also work as the "bad guys" looking for their "champion/s" to get their army started
just needs to give the impression, that the clones didn't come out of tjhe blue sky and nobody really cares why and how "ordered" them - it was a very dumb thing, even in times of conflict, to use a "weapon", that is of uncertain origin and not tested (as proof: "Order 66")
as for how story could evolve, I made some suggestions in the other threads, but I prefer to have a "droids/clones" then "clones/clones" war or "clones/clones" from the start - but if one side changes it makes more sense, as for why robots are not so good looked at in the OT (except them being still "slaves")
Jedi could start a "clone army" because of the returning threat of a Sith Empire - and if one states in the E1-crawl or "prologe", that before the Jedi had a war against Mandalorians or Sith / Dark Jedi, it could be reasoned, why they are so few in numbers (being a BIG galaxy) - back then also clones could have been used (but to a "better" outcome), meaning this is the "last" Clone War (in a series of many)
after this the technology is banned or simply destroyed, because imperial technicians prefer to build "Battle Moons" and not "small armies" ;-)