Whoops, one step forward and ten steps back. There is a cliff behind you.
======== Hey, why are only 10% expats registering to vote? They can do so in perfect security...too much trouble and bother? Geez Loueeeze. That's what we're spending $300 billion and 1300+ American lives on...non voting.
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Large blast rocks Iraqi capital
A large explosion has rocked the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Officials said a suicide car bomb went off at a checkpoint near Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party offices, located in the heavily fortified Green Zone.
At least 10 people are said to have been injured in the blast.
Insurgents have been staging regular attacks across the country, as Iraq prepares for general elections due to take place on Sunday.
On Sunday, militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - who tops Iraq's most wanted list - apparently declared war on the election.
An audiotape on an Islamist website purportedly voiced by the Jordanian-born militant called on Sunni Muslims to fight against the vote.
Earlier on Sunday, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told the BBC he believed the election would eventually spell the end of violence in Iraq.
But, he said, this would not happen immediately and insurgent attacks were likely to continue in the short term.
The US ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, said on Sunday that serious efforts were being made to enable Iraqis to vote, but acknowledged that there were "problematic areas".
The interim government has announced sweeping security measures to protect voters, which included extended curfews and shutting Iraq's borders for three days around the poll.
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