The C.I.S are the good guys during the events of the Clone Wars. [Star Wars]

When Obi-wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Senator Amidala were caught trespassing on Geonosis, it was because Obi-wan had followed a dangerous bounty hunter, Jango Fett, to the planet, after Jango had resisted arrest by Kenobi with deadly force. The Republic and Jedi council had long suspected the Trade Federation was planning another rebellion and thus Obi-wan had reasonable suspicions upon which to investigate further when he came across the droid factories on Geonosis. I would also like to remind everyone that Kenobi did not go to Geonosis to investigate unsubstantiated claims of droid factories, he went to the planet because he was following Jango Fett. After the Naboo Crisis, the Trade Federation had been ordered, by the Republic, to downsize their droid army*, and the droid factories on Geonosis were in clear violation of this order. Thus the Grand Army of the Republic had the legal right to invade Geonosis to stop their production of military droids for the Trade Federation, which were certainly not intended to be used as simple protocol droids. Furthermore, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Amidala were sentenced to executed for trespassing by Poggle the Lesser, a high-ranking member and founder of the C.I.S. who was in direct contact with the Sith lord Count Dooku. One can suspect that the sentence of execution was not motivated solely by justice or legal precedence, if it even was. Despite the possible slave-status of Clone troopers, I posit that the Clones were the absolute best and most humane option for the Republic. The C.I.S. was mass-producing droids for their military, and a volunteer Republic military simply would not be able to muster anywhere near the required volume of troops. Because of the situation forced upon the Republic, the clone army was accepted as the Grand Army of the Republic for the Clone Wars. And clones were superior to droids for one sole reason: they weren't droids. Fives, one of the most prominent clones, said of clone troopers, in Clone Wars 4:10, "We are loyal soldiers, we follow orders, but we are not a bunch of unthinking droids, we are men. We must be trusted to make the right decisions, especially when the orders we are given are wrong. " Clones were given free-will, thus they were able to disobey immoral orders and the Republic would have a difficult time ordering war crimes. Furthermore, as stated by clone trooper Fives, clones were men. In Clone Wars 1:20, two clones troopers form a bond with a Twi'lek child, whose parents and entire village had been enslaved by the C.I.S. army. They even risk their lives to protect her. Can you imagine two C.I.S. droids doing the same? Also, I remind everyone that there is a vast difference between Clones and enslaving innocent Twi'lek civilians, which is what the C.I.S. did. In the Huk War, it is true that the Republic came to the aid of the Yam'rii, but it did so because the Yam'rii lied about the origins of the war, saying the Kaleesh had been the aggressors. While the Republic did make a mistake, it is misleading to imply that the Republic knowingly caused famine on undeserving people. My opponent would like you to believe that the Confederacy of Independent Systems rebelled against the Republic because of "injustices" placed upon them by a corrupt government, but this simply is not true. Let us look at three of the highest ranking leaders of the C.I.S., all of them founders. The first, Nute Gunray. Many of you will recognize his name from the Naboo Crisis. Gunray was the viceroy of the Trade Federation during the Naboo Crisis and throughout the Clone Wars. He was an conniving Neimodian concerned firstly with his own wealth and power. Originally, his power as viceroy was restricted by the Directorate of the Trade Federation, but Gunray conspired with the Sith lord Darth Sidious to assassinate them, thus becoming the sole ruler of the Trade Federation.*** Gunray's greed and vileness was demonstrated when he sent droids to set up illegal bases on Alaris Prime, a planet whose colonization rights had been granted to the Wookies. He then attempted to wipe out the Wookies which had arrived to rightfully colonize the moon until the Republic intervened. The second C.I.S. leader is Wat Tambor. Tambor was the one who ordered the invasion of Ryloth and the enslavement of the native Twi'leks, whose plight I talked about in my opening statement.**** If Wat Tambor is fine with ordering the enslavement of innocent civilians, then he is automatically not the good guy in the war, unless you consider what he did fine. Lastly, we have Shu Mai, a Gossam who used unscrupulous tactics in her business dealings and economically enslaved her own people, demanding tribute.***** Are these the leaders of the good guys in a war? My opponent claims that the Republic instigated the Clone Wars by unreasonably invading Geonosis in response to the rightful execution of three trespassers. This is not true. Geonosis was the site of the main droid factories of Wat Tambor, which produced military droids for the Trade Federation, in direct violation of the military down-size order issued by the Republic after the Naboo Crisis. Second, my opponent would like you to believe that the Republic was just as ruthless as the C.I.S. in the use of slavery. First off, there is no comparison between the brutality of the C.I.S. enslaving innocent Twi'lek civilians and the Republic's clone army. Secondly, the clones were by far the most humane choice of soldier the Republic could have made, because clones were programmed to think and feel like real humans, to have compassion, sympathy, and love. And finally, my opponent makes the incorrect claim that the Confederacy of Independent Systems was motivated by a desire to correct injustices. But many, if not all, of the Confederate leaders, such as Nute Gunray, Wat Tambor, and Shu Mai, were evil, ruthless, and above all, greedy, valuing nothing above their own personal wealth and power. The Seperatist rebellion was not about justice, it was about money and power. * http://starwars.wikia.com... **http://starwars.wikia.com... ***http://starwars.wikia.com... ****http://starwars.wikia.com... *****http://starwars.wikia.com...