"Star Wars" Creator George Lucas: Another Hollywood Asshat

It appears that George Lucas of "Star Wars" fame has joined the ranks of other misguided Hollyweirdos like Oliver Stoned and Ed "Assinine" Asner with these comments:

'The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable. On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person, and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are good people, they are doing it for the right reasons,' he added.

Arthur Chrenkoff is a blogger from down under who once lived under Communist rule in his native Poland. Check out his "An Open Letter to George Lucas." Here's a sample:

Yes, we were very wrong indeed - to you, the Empire was the United States of America, and if that's the case, then the brave rebels could only be all those people around the world fighting the American Empire - the Castros, Che Guevaras, Ho Chi Minhs, Pol Pots, and by extension, the Brezhnevs and the Mao Tse Tungs of this world. You, of course, live in the Free World, and as such you have the right to believe that your country is the most powerful force for evil operating in the world. But just for the sake of completeness and historical accuracy, can I just mention that whatever the sins of the United States - and I certainly understand well enough that no country is perfect - your rebels, both when fighting for power and when finally in power, ended up being responsible for the death of tens of millions and enslavement of hundreds of millions; the Luke Skywalkers and Han Solos of the last century gave us gulags and re-education camps, terror famines and political prisons; they institutionalized cults of personality, stifled every human freedom and impoverished whole nations.