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Members of the peace group Stop the War Machine are no strangers to Sen. Pete Domenici's office in Albuquerque. But they're usually bearing protest signs, not cookies and flowers.

So activist Jeanne Pahls took a few precautions with the two dozen roses and three dozen store-bought cookies they dropped off on July 10 to thank Domenici, an Albuquerque Republican, for his break with President Bush over the war in Iraq.

"We left the labels on the cookies so they wouldn't think we tampered with it," Pahls said, laughing.

Domenici has been making national headlines for his shift toward pulling out troops — although he doesn't support setting a deadline.

Pahls said Sen. Jeff Bingaman was given flowers and ice cream when he voted in 2002 against authorizing the war but hasn't been vocal enough since. His gift on July 10, despite his support of a spring pullout: black balloons.