Star Wars director Slams President Bush

In a speech given last night, famed Star Wars director George Lucas slammed President Bush when he said that ""Study abroad is extremely important; just for kids to get outside this country and experience the fact there is a big world out there, we are a provincial country. Our president has barely been out of the country."

I take issue here, Lucas doesn't know what he's talking about. Bush is the President, let's not forget that. He makes visits of State all the time, it's part of his job. As a case in point, there were rumors that the Commander in Chief would speak at the 2005 graduation of Cedarville University last year - he didn't because he was in the middle of an State visit to Russia at the time. He also went on a visit it Israel when he was still Gov. of Texas, not to mention attending G8 summits every year and the Economic Confrence of the Americas. these are just the State visits that I can remember. Barely been out of the country Mr. Lucas? I think not.

Now those that know me know that I love Star Wars. I think that in creating such a world that Lucas is indeed a genius, as Pelosi stated when she gave him the award last night. However, I don't appreciate that Lucas has joined the Hollywood ranks of those that are critical of the administration in words and on film. Such a controversey surrounded Lucas around the release of Episode III last year when he said that he had the Vietnam War in mind when he outlined the Prequel films but was disheartened to see the same thing happening again with Iraq.