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From Iraq, Brownback Says No to Surge

January 10, 2007 4:37 PM

ABC News' David Chalian Reports: While traveling in Iraq, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) broke from his leading competitors for the GOP nomination and issued a written statement in opposition to President Bush's plan to add more American troops in and around Baghdad.

"I do not believe that sending more troops to Iraq is the answer," said Brownback. "Iraq requires a political rather than a military solution. In the last two days, I have met with Prime Minister Maliki, with two deputy presidents and the president of the Kurdish region. I came away from these meetings convinced that the United States should not increase its involvement until Sunnis and Shi'a are more willing to cooperate with each other instead of shooting at each other."

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the Republican presidential frontrunner, has long been a leading cheerleader of sending more troops into Iraq to secure Baghdad to allow the political process move forward. Earlier today, Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) issued a statement expressing strong support for the President's plan -- or as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) likes to call it, the "McCain Doctrine."

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