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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Donovan Morningfire" data-source="post: 3674389" data-attributes="member: 39532">Was also referenced in an issue of Star Wars Insider that the Clone Troopers' training was to such an extent that if you gave them an order, they executed it without hesitation or prejudice.  The analogy given was that you make the knife so sharp it has no choice but to cut.Order 66 was given by the Commander-in-Chief, and thus interpreted as a valid order, and so the Clone Troopers simply followed orders with no inherent malice.  The only reason Yoda got tipped off was that 1) he'd felt scores of other Jedi die through the Force, and 2) it took longer than a couple seconds for Gree and the other trooper to approach Yoda, by which time they'd thought about Order 66 and formed an opinion on it as well as an opinion on killing Yoda, so it was no longer "just following orders."</blockquote>