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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx</link><description>By Karl Bostic, NBC News Producer
Iraq's parliament passed a provincial elections bill on Tuesday despite a walkout by Kurdish parliamentarians angered over how the law would deal with the disputed city of Kirkuk.
The provincial election plan -- strongly</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1215017</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:50:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1215017</guid><dc:creator>Ray &amp;quot;Rock&amp;quot; Mundial  FOB Yankee, Kuwait (MPRI)</dc:creator><description>We need to exit Iraq just as soon, you heard their President its time for us to get the hec out of there-we invaded, predicated on lies, Killed over 100 thousand Iraqi civilians thru collateral damage-I nice phrase to soften the blow of the truth the majority was murdered by our troops-caught up in crossfire or whatever- we are occupiers by force-they want us out-let's leave, this whole thing is a total failure- I have deployed twice, its time to leave.</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1215027</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:53:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1215027</guid><dc:creator>Keri Petterson  Amsterdam NL</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt; BUSH got us into this mess by lying, I am lifelong republican, but this time its Obama, the immoral way conduct business through out this world is just morally wrong and we have become enemy.</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1215047</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:58:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1215047</guid><dc:creator>Marvin &amp;quot;Beastman&amp;quot; Eastman  NYC</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt; When I hear McCain talk about being in there for 100 years, I can only think, &amp;quot; has Grandpa forgot too take his meds today&amp;quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Bush/ROVE/Chenney lied and got us into this mess (Iraq), plus they messed up our economy- they got to go- Obama all the way!!!!!!</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1215067</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:00:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1215067</guid><dc:creator>Cathy Irby  San Diego, CA</dc:creator><description> &lt;br&gt; How much more money must be wasted on Iraq-that's money that could be spent here in the Un United States, what a misrable failure this debalce in Iraq has become.</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1216375</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:55:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1216375</guid><dc:creator>marroush</dc:creator><description>No part of Iraq was &amp;quot;Kurdish&amp;quot; as &amp;quot;Kurds&amp;quot; originate from the Aryan Mountains. They invaded and occupied Northern Iraq, and now they are threatening the stability of all Iraqis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Originally an Assyrian city, like all Northern Iraq, Kirkuk was home to Assyrians, Arabs, Turkmen, Armenians, etc...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Today, Kurds are claiming it. Ironic, is it not?</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1216472</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:59:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1216472</guid><dc:creator>London</dc:creator><description>Kurdish leaders should be brave and regain Kirkuk by force and run a referandum by themselves with UN. after all it is an outstanding constitutional right. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kurdish leaders are bribed by US to shut their mouth..but Kurdish people wouldnot accept this for ever..i expect Kurds to raise against their leader and stop continuation of arabisation.</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1216701</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:32:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1216701</guid><dc:creator>Karen Campione'  Liverpool (UK)</dc:creator><description> Obama is right, get out of Iraq ASAP, can we start leaving in November after he wins the election. Time to end this trail of failures.</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1217825</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:59:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1217825</guid><dc:creator>Debra S. Murray   NYC</dc:creator><description>Wow didn't realise the war so unpopular, the best thing that can happen is the Kurds declare their independence-yes, I agree with the others here (they do need to learn how to spell though), Bush is a liar and should be arrested and be charged with war crimes, and Senator Obama is right, time to focus somewhere else.</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1218798</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:06:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1218798</guid><dc:creator>london</dc:creator><description>US came and got the country into the mess now want to run away like cowrd men and say bye!! ..they have a moral oblication to stay until the job is done..as long as it takes..</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1218806</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:18:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1218806</guid><dc:creator>allan</dc:creator><description>Kurds should stop been a Mr Nice guy and should not compromise their right and give away everything just because US want to make sunnis happy..after all Kurds faught against sadam with US army and before them. so they deseve to be allowed to impliment the iraqi constitution that 80% of the country has oted for. </description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1221802</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:01:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1221802</guid><dc:creator>Denise Hanson  Banning, Ca</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt; The Kurds deserve their own independent country. One problem, you have the United States Occupying by Force and our totally against a Free Kurdish Territory, Why?, will because OIL is located in only two places in Iraq in Basara and in Kirkut, starting to see the picture? Its about Oil, and of course we Americans don't like any country we can't control, this whole bloody, murderous aggresion in Iraq is over the control of Oil.</description></item><item><title>UN envoy discusses 'crucial year' for Iraq</title><link>http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/22/1213897.aspx#1221804</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:06:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1221804</guid><dc:creator>Pauline Davis       Liverpool (UK)</dc:creator><description> Kurdish Independence all the way, so glad BUSH is getting ready to say bye-bye, time for Obama to put his plans of global citizenship into play, I have always felt like more citizen of the world, I'm just a person living in the United States (actually I also have a home in Italy and Holland).</description></item></channel></rss>