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The irony is that he had made an absolute statement by saying that only a Sith would deal in absolutes.
You're right, it is an absolute statement, and it was in its original context too.
If you all think back to the Bush/Kerry debates in 2004, George Bush made a retort to one of John Kerry's remarks by saying "I only deal in absolutes". I took the remark in Ep3 as a feeble attempt by Lucas to say George Bush is evil.
Maybe I'm completely wrong and Lucas didn't even notice the connection, but it seemed pretty blatant to me at the time I saw the film and I know Lucas is a huge supporter of the Democratic Party and very anti-war (
which is funny he chooses to make movies about wars). Plus there are other occurences. In Ep1, one of the bad-Japanese accent, Nemodian guys is named Nute Gunray (Newt Gingrich?) And near the beginning of Ep3, Amidala is telling Anakin about trying to stop this pointless fighting (Iraq war?) - that one might be a stretch, but the other two seem pretty plausible.
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