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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:02:49 -0700, SFTVratings   
    wrote:   
      
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   >Anybody wrote:   
   >> In article , David Johnston   
   >> >  wrote:   
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   >> > >If Anakin had not been there, the Jedi Master (Windu?) would have   
   >> > >killed the Chancellor, and that would have been the end of it.   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> > No, if Anakin had not been there Palpatine would have just killed   
   >> > Windu without all the "Please help me, he murdering me" nonsense.   
   >>   
   >> That's true as well. Palpatine was playing with Mace Windu because he   
   >> had sensed Anakin was coming and he could use it to further manipulate   
   >> Anakin over to the Dark Side.   
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   >I see no evidence that Palpatine was "playing".  It appeared to me   
   >that he was soundly defeated (having been weakened to the point of   
   >looking like a dried-up prune), and Master Windu was the victor.   
      
   I found it highly suspicious that Palpatine started doing so badly as   
   Anakin arrived, and that Palpatine was losing to Mace but later proves   
   to be more than a match for Yoda.  Of course even assuming that   
   Palpatine really was losing to Mace, had there been no Anakin then had   
   Palpatine been exposed by other means and killed, then Dooku would   
   have continued for him.   
      
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