Mos Eisley Spaceport

The Victory Base Complex, Baghdad, is like the Mos Eisley Spaceport: that iconic frontier experience starting with the different vehicles, control measures and Luke Skywalker's amazement at a big city full of sights and processes unfamiliar, and moreso typified by the famous scene where Luke and Ben Kenobi walk into the Cantina and are greated by a diverse range of foreign life forms, attitudes, and experiences.

I have not had anyone tell me that "he doesn't like you" (I'm sorry), "and I don't like you" and then draw a weapon on me, but there are a few characters around that some of the alien lifeforms and attitudes may have been modelled on. Unfamiliar shapes, sizes and sounds all accompanied by the obtrusive presence of a weapon on every hip or slung over every shoulder. Not to mention the similarities between Toeen's stark landscape and the bleak dustiness of my current environs.

I have sourced my first exit from this "planet", with a Rhino ride into the Green Zone in a couple of days time for an overnight stay. The Rhino is a large armoured bus that is escorted by four Hummers, "locked and loaded". No Carrilean Cruisers expected to be waiting in orbit, however they are always on the alert for the occasionaly Tie Fighter or the opportunistic Boba Fhet and his cronies.