Stop the Arms Race Political Action Committee (STAR PAC), an Iowa peace activism group founded in 1980, has endorsed Bill Richardson for president, citing the candidate's promise to pull all American troops out of Iraq within his first year in office.

His message is the same wherever he speaks - to a military audience in Georgetown, a New Hampshire town meeting, in a rural Iowa community or at STAR PAC's candidate forum with the governor in August," said STAR PAC chair Harold Wells.