Obama to Bush on Troops Surge: It’s A Mistake

ABC News’ Karen Travers Reports: Potential Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) emerged from a meeting with President Bush at the White House today and told reporters that he "personally indicated that an escalation of troop levels in Iraq was a mistake and that we need a political accommodation rather than a military approach to the sectarian violence there."

Sen. Obama said that he thinks President Bush is considering a surge in troops in and around Baghdad very carefully.  "They’ve obviously run that possibility through the traps.  He did not say definitively that that’s the decision he had made," said Obama.

When asked how the President reacted to his calling a surge in troops a mistake, "he understood my perspective," Obama said. 

"I think he recognizes that the status quo is unacceptable and has to change," he added.