ben_danger said:

Bingowings said:

If the template is the bodyguard of the enemy leader it's obviously a trap so you don't use the army.

It might make more sense if the army is already an established entity - so if AOTC had an opening with say - the geonosis arena, it could be suggested they have been in use for years.

Once again in my view it just makes the whole mechanism of the Army something the Jedi would want nothing to do with (even if they were established before the discovery).

You could have the technology used to make a new clone army after the template was isolated and original batch 'retired', that would be a bit like Operation Paperclip using former enemy scientists to build missiles (and would suggest more than one Clone War) but to have the Jedi fight along side such an obvious trap once it's uncovered is too much a colossus of stupid. It would be like George VI getting a doomsday bomb shaped present from Adolf Hitler, with a label that read "Zis Vill Cure Your Schtutter" and unwrapping it before all the allied leaders.

How could these guys keep the peace for a thousand generations while being so incompetent?