So when Palpatine announces that he intends to remain at war until a certain General Grievous is captured, no parallels to the hunt for Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein were intended. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent war on terror. Lucas said he wrote that line and the screenplay's other politically pointed elements before the Sept. 'It gets truer every day, unfortunately.' 'I didn't expect that to be true,' Lucas said, then laughed. As Senator Padme, played by Natalie Portman, watches Palpatine consolidate his power amid a rapturous senate, she comments disgustedly, 'This is how liberty dies: with thundering applause.' In 'Revenge of the Sith,' Chancellor Palpatine exploits war fears to turn the Republic into an Empire ruled by him alone.
