Not even the green zone is secure anymore. How long is it before Baghdad falls harder than Saigon?

Answer 1

According to McCain, one can have family picnics anywhere in Baghdad without a care in the world.

Answer 2

Well, your question shows you don't really understand either Iraq or Vietnam.

First of all, there is no evidence that "the green zone is not secure anymore". In fact all the evidence coming out of the surge is just the opposite. You need to check on your facts.

Second of all, Siagon did NOT fall to insurgents, and insurgents are all we are dealing with in Iraq.

The mass insurgent style uprising by the Viet Cong was Tet in 1968 and that was a massive military defeat for the V.C. The only city they captured was Hue, and they lost that after a few weeks of very heavy fighting.

In the T.V. world Tet was spun as a great victory and a sign that we could not win and that the V.C. were the good guys and the ARVN were the bad guys, and that falsehood managed to sway a lot of American public opinion, and that lead eventually to our pull out.

However in the REAL world Tet was a massive defeat for the V.C. They lost the vast majority of the V.C. troops and supporters and achieved nothing. On the ground, in the real world, Tet was a crushing defeat. The Vietnamese people did NOT rise up to support the V.C. the way their Lenninist theory said they would, and the vast majority of the V.C. got killed... which ironicly enough was what the U.S. was trying to do all along. After Tet there wasn't a whole lot of V.C. left, and more and more NVA began to be used in the South.

Siagon fell in 1975. Two years after the U.S. pulled out and seven years after Tet. Siagon fell to the armored divisions of the North Vietnamese Army. North Vietnamese tanks came down from the North, (a separate country) cut through the ARVN (except for Xuan Loc where they were stopped cold for almost two weeks), and after the Democrats in Congress refused to let President Ford live up to our treaty obligation to defend South Vietnam, the NVA took Siagon. This incidentally was the NVA's second try at a conventional strike to take Siagon. They had tried once before (the Easter Offensive) in 1972 and the ARVN, American Air Power, and what little U.S. forces we had left in South Vietnam stopped them cold and sent them back north with their tail between their legs.

The insurgents in Iraq have nothing even close to the type of forces that took Siagon. Neither do they have the massive popular support required for an uprising. Despite what you may have seen in movies, plucky rebels simply do not try to take occupied cities and survive. The only case of such a liberation actually working was Warsaw in 1944, (and maybe Paris in 1944) and in both cases the occuping force was threatened by a large conventional allied army just outside the city. Cities fall to armies. Sometimes rebel armies, but armies coming in from the outside none the less.

For your analogy to work, IRAN would have to invade Iraq and take Baghdad... something I am sure they would be happy to do if the Democrats again force us to pull out and betray the people who allied themselves with us.

So you really should brush up on your history and tactics if you want to understand what is going on in the world.

Answer 3

It never ceases to amaze me how pig-headed republicans are especially Bush supporters. They like their captain will go down with the burning ship. If they were smart they would make up an excuse right away to get out and regroup. Bush would have been smart to invade Iraq with a Plan. Anybody in their right mind would have had a backup plan to secure Iraqs borders after they overthrowed the government. He just throwed our boys out there and expected to make the Iraqis to hail the US as their liberators. It was a rash decision that needed more in-depth planning.

Answer 4

To get your answer, you need to ask Senator Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They are the leaders of the Liberal Democrats who are doing everything they can to cause the United States of America to lose the War Against Terrorists in Iraq.

Answer 5

Iraq will become the new puppet state of Iran as soon as Bush leaves office and the Democrats pull the troops out of the region. Then we will see Iran attempt to destroy Israel and in order to defend herself Israel will Nuke the Muslim hoards.

Answer 6

Baghdad, like Saigon, will fall when the US abandons it.

Answer 7

Rather go to Baghdad, then to New York , its safer.

Answer 8

I hope that is not what you are wishing for. I don't like the Iraq war anymore than anyone else. It was to BS from the start. We do not need another scene like that one. Our exit, whenever it may be, needs to be as smooth as possible.

Answer 9

This is a ? for the Defeatocrats who are standing by with their tongues hanging out of their mouths just a drooling with their white flags in their hands behind the yellow streak going up their linguine spine!

Goodnight~0230 comes early!

Answer 10

35,000 more American fighters to the field.its working.Dem leadership seems weak minded.are you familiar with the Borg in star trek?.think of republicans like borg.victory.