{"id":1934,"date":"2007-07-05T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/domenici-to-change-policy-stance-on-iraq-war\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T16:14:00","slug":"domenici-to-change-policy-stance-on-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/domenici-to-change-policy-stance-on-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici to change policy stance on Iraq war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ro0ZECuSXGI\/AAAAAAAACvw\/b3MUt66Iih8\/s1600-h\/Domenici,+Pete.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ro0ZECuSXGI\/AAAAAAAACvw\/b3MUt66Iih8\/s200\/Domenici,+Pete.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083747111612341346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a>, R-N.M., plans to announce later this morning \u201ca change in his policy on the war in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>,\u201d according to a news release from his office.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The change isn\u2019t specified, but will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In April, Domenici voted against a Democrat-sponsored bill to set troop-withdrawal deadlines, saying it was \u201cirresponsible\u201d because Congress would be \u201cdeserting our commitments to our military leaders and telling them that none of it matters, the war is over and your mission is done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the same time, Domenici said he understood \u201cthe deep national unrest over the course of the war. I do not support an open-ended commitment in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He called for the Iraqi government to step up but said, in the meantime, Congress needed to support the troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Withdrawal deadlines were never imposed, as Democrats backed down during the standoff with President Bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Update, 11:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Domenici is calling for a reduction and redeployment of American troops from <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. I\u2019ll have a complete article shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., plans to announce later this morning \u201ca change in his policy on the war in Iraq,\u201d according to a news release from his office. The change isn\u2019t specified, but will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. in Albuquerque. In April, Domenici voted against a Democrat-sponsored bill to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}