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[Star Wars] Before Geonosis, did the Jedi think Dooku was an honorable man who just had opposing political views?

Did the council think he could be negotiated with?
gpt
In a word? Yes. He initially ragequit over the death of his protégé, and his closest confidant was so rogue that he ordered the Clone Army in the name of the Order. Until a few years before the Geonosis debacle, he worked quite covertly; afterwards, he relied on propaganda to make his movement too legitimate to simply put down by force.