US House Reps visit Iraq: lights go out during lunch with PM, mortar rounds hit Green Zone

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Returning from a six–day trip to Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R–Tipton, said he was impressed with the economic gains being made, especially in Afghanistan. The Lenawee County Republican was making his second trip to Afghanistan and his first to Iraq.

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They were eating lunch at the prime minister’s home, he said, when the lights went out.

“Even in this more stable and peaceful area of the country, consumers can only expect to have power two hours or so a day,” he said. This clearly showed there were still some challenges, he said.

Walberg, along with Rep. Lincoln Davis, D–Tenn.; Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R–Tenn.; and Rep. John Barrow, D–Ga., also met with the deputy prime minister of Iraq.

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The visit wrapped up with dinner and discussion at the U.S. Embassy with Crocker and Petraeus, which he said was made extra special by four or five mortar rounds, which did not hit the embassy.