Welcome to voting Iraq....

The election in Iraq is over an hour old now and it looks like the USA brass has resurrected the grainy black and white target scope images so familiar from the first Iraq War during the first Bush administration. I can almost hear Darth Vader going "This is CNN!"

But times change and I'm watching Fox News and MSNBC and deperately trying to figure out why Joe Scarborough has a job. He's like Al Gore's doppelganger.

So far things are calm and the polling place seem deserted but it's only 8:20 AM there, and I'm sure most people are busy putting their bhurkas on over full body armor.

Also, of note, is the fact the US Army seems to have been watching the CSI re-runs on Spike TV because they are busy checking people for explosive residue.

Reuters is now reporting their may have been an explosion outside a polling place.

There was a thud but not as strong as the thuds yesterday.