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Ex-Iraqi defense minister calls troop surge alone "insufficient"

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Former Iraqi Defense Minister Ali Allawi says President Bush's troop buildup is helping, but only "to a limited extent." Speaking Tuesday on a panel at the Kennedy Library in Boston, Allawi said the buildup "in and of itself is insufficient to resolve the political crisis in Iraq."

The other participants were former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine, who served in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq during 2003, and former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, author of "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End."