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WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Prominent U.S. Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., disagree on whether a surge in U.S. troops will help bring stability to Iraq.
But both men told ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopolous" Sunday that a political settlement is the only long-term solution for the troubled country.
Both visited Iraq last week.
Dodd, who only last week appeared to support an increase in U.S. troops, said he changed his mind after talking with U.S. military leaders.
"The commanders that I talked to last week and soldiers on the ground (in Iraq) felt that a surge in troops, some 15,000-30,000 additional troops, was not going to contribute to the political or diplomatic solution that Iraq cries out for."
Dodd called a temporary troop increase, which President Bush is considering, "a tactic in search of a strategy."
"The security environment in Baghdad has very much deteriorated," Graham said. "You've not going to have a political solution with this much violence. So the surge of troops is, I think, very necessary."
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