{"id":23363,"date":"2026-05-29T01:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-fires-back-at-platners-iraq-war-criticism-he-was-not-drafted\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:20:26","slug":"collins-fires-back-at-platners-iraq-war-criticism-he-was-not-drafted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-fires-back-at-platners-iraq-war-criticism-he-was-not-drafted\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins fires back at Platner&#8217;s Iraq war criticism: &#8216;He was not drafted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) hit back on Thursday at a comment from the top Democratic challenger in Maine&#8217;s Senate race about her past support of U.S. military foreign intervention.&nbsp; Graham Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer, told The New York Times earlier this month that the incumbent senator &ldquo;voted to send me to Iraq.&rdquo;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5900413-collins-responds-to-platner\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) hit back on Thursday at a comment from the top Democratic challenger in Maine&#8217;s Senate race about her past support of U.S. military foreign intervention.&nbsp; Graham Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer, told The New York Times earlier this month that the incumbent senator &ldquo;voted to send me to Iraq.&rdquo;&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}