"Green Zone" is to Bagdhad as "________" was to Saigon.

[DemoTex]

NBC tonight acted like the "green zone" was something new. We had a "green-zone" (if not a few zones like that) in Saigon, complete with golf course. Any takers? Hey! No! Tu Do Street don't count, you numba-ten GI!

[illflem]

1. "Green Zone" is to Baghdad as

Austin is to Texas

[BikeWriter]

2. Hmm, I was in and out of Ton Son Nhut, but didn't stay long enough...

...to find my way around.

[DemoTex]

3. Close .. very close.

But no cigar.

[BikeWriter]

20. Are you refering to Bien Hoa? n/t

[dogman]

4. Long Binh?

[kentuck]

19. That's what I was thinking also, dogman...

LBJ....Long Binh Jail

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. The Demilitarized Zone...

Didn't you guys see Full Metal Jacket...

[DrWeird]

6. I should ask my uncle.

Spent the war driving a jeep around Saigon.

I give up.

[Wilber_Stool]

7. I belive there was a

golf course that butted up against the MAC V Anex.
I used to pull guard there. First time I ever got shot at.

[DemoTex]

9. Jesus, Wilbur .. call it and win the prize!

.

[Wilber_Stool]

10. I don't know man,

I just don't know. I only saw it from the outside.

[Vadem]

8. China Beach?....n/t

[ElectroPrincess]

11. Bagdad is a FREE FIRE ZONE mahn ... I grew up in the 70s

Free Fire Zone - Anything that moves can be KILLED without legal repercussions.

No, my bad, that was Faluja. :(

How about non-tactical zone?

[DemoTex]

12. "Green Zone" is to Baghdad as "________" was to Saigon. ANSWER:

The MACV Compound! That include part or all on Ton Son Nuht AFB. I spent my first night, last night, and a few in-between drunken nights in the MACV compound in Saigon.

On edit: MACV = Military Assistance Command Vietnam

[Wilber_Stool]

13. Shit man

I should get the prize for my answer. Well on second reading, I was damn close. I guess I was never in the MACV Compound.

[DemoTex]

14. You were in the MACV Compound (IMHO).

If you were in Saigon. At some point (maybe).

[BikeWriter]

21. Oh shit. I see your point, with all the brass, CIA, and contractors...

...in and out...

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. What ever the name of this place was

[leanin_green]

16. The American Embassy.

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. Thanks

I was drawing a blank.

[indie_voter]

17. I understand your point, however

MHO comparisons to Vietnam are irrelevant.

Vietnam was a disaster, Vietnam went on for too many years. We lost too many people there.

Iraq is exponentially worse. Nothing in our history can compare to what is to come.

We haven't lost as many people but the consequences of our actions are so much greater and deadlier.

Iraq has turned countless of people, regardless of country, against us.

We are now the target for fundamentalist religious Muslims everywhere.

For generations to come.

The repercussions are horrific.