{"id":3044,"date":"2026-06-07T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:33:58","slug":"collinss-vote-platners-service-inject-iraq-war-politics-into-key-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"Collins\u2019s vote, Platner\u2019s service inject Iraq War politics into key Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Veteran Graham Platner is attacking Republican Sen. Susan Collins\u2019s vote to authorize the war in his campaign to unseat her.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3039\">Afghanistan strikes with 3 quick wickets, but India stays on top at 475-6 on Day 2<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3041\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/56f97ad9d2670ab20e2f57b5f444d25b-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/56f97ad9d2670ab20e2f57b5f444d25b-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/56f97ad9d2670ab20e2f57b5f444d25b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/56f97ad9d2670ab20e2f57b5f444d25b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/56f97ad9d2670ab20e2f57b5f444d25b-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/56f97ad9d2670ab20e2f57b5f444d25b-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for Senate from Maine, served in the Marines during the Iraq War. (Robert F. Bukaty\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>BAR HARBOR, Maine \u2014 Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted to authorize the Iraq War over two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Platner (D) served three tours in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>That dynamic between a longtime Senate incumbent and an upstart liberal challenger is becoming a clear policy disagreement in one of the nation\u2019s most high-profile Senate races, thrusting the politics of the Iraq War back to the forefront of an American election. Platner is driving the focus on the war, tying it to the Iran conflict he hopes will imperil Collins\u2019s bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve watched her for decades vote to support these stupid, pointless foreign wars like the one she voted to send me off to fight,\u201d Platner told a crowd in this resort town Friday night. \u201cSusan Collins hasn\u2019t met a war she didn\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Platner\u2019s three combat tours in Iraq have also become a key defense of the candidate as he weathers  allegations that he sent sexually explicit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/31\/platner-sexting-controversy-what-it-could-mean-democrats\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/31\/platner-sexting-controversy-what-it-could-mean-democrats\/\">text messages<\/a> to women while married and had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/04\/us\/politics\/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/04\/us\/politics\/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html\">volatile relationships<\/a> with women. He told his supporters at the rally he went through a period of \u201cdarkness\u201d when he returned from war and was battling untreated PTSD, and he feels that past has been \u201cweaponized\u201d against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe broke thousands of young men by sending them into dumb wars,\u201d Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) said after Platner spoke, praising his effort to become a \u201cbetter man\u201d in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>For over a decade after the war began in 2003, the unpopular conflict dominated politics, and a lawmaker\u2019s position on the war was a frequent campaign attack. But the issue largely faded from the campaign trail after the 2016 presidential election, in which both Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and Republican nominee Donald Trump in the general lambasted former senator Hillary Clinton for authorizing the war.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the issue is back at the forefront in Maine. Collins hit back against Platner in late May by noting he chose to enlist in the Marines during the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect anyone who steps forward to serve their country, but the fact is that was Platner\u2019s decision to serve. He was not drafted,\u201d Collins told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The comment incensed Platner, who in an interview with The Washington Post on May 29<i><b> <\/b><\/i>described Collins\u2019s view as \u201ca wild, wild thing to believe\u201d and argued that it shows the senator \u201chas learned no lessons\u201d about her support for the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen running against someone like me who has lived the material consequences of her bad decisions,\u201d Platner said, \u201cI don\u2019t really think she knows what to do with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3042\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ed7f5e82eda6f0d65a9bc0b6a14dcdde-1024x716.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ed7f5e82eda6f0d65a9bc0b6a14dcdde-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ed7f5e82eda6f0d65a9bc0b6a14dcdde-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ed7f5e82eda6f0d65a9bc0b6a14dcdde-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ed7f5e82eda6f0d65a9bc0b6a14dcdde.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) speaks in 2002, the year she announced support for the Iraq War. (Mark F. Sypher\/CQ-Roll Call\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Collins defended her Iraq War vote in a statement to The Post, saying she was addressing the \u201cgreatest terrorist attack in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President George W. Bush\u2019s administration\u2019s \u201cdecision to protect the United States against terrorism was a logical response to that attack in my judgment,\u201d Collins said, before noting that the vote was bipartisan and included now Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware). No federal investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including the congressional joint inquiry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2003\/09\/29\/iraq-911-still-linked-cheney\/5b56d29d-d5ba-43ec-8c57-3cec1dc713e6\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2003\/09\/29\/iraq-911-still-linked-cheney\/5b56d29d-d5ba-43ec-8c57-3cec1dc713e6\/\">found any evidence linking Iraq to the attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collins.senate.gov\/newsroom\/statement-senator-susan-m-collins-authorization-iraq\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.collins.senate.gov\/newsroom\/statement-senator-susan-m-collins-authorization-iraq\">2002 speech announcing her support for the war<\/a>, Collins cited then-Secretary of State Colin Powell\u2019s claim that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>None were found, and Powell has acknowledged the intelligence he was using at the time was misleading, calling his push to war a \u201clasting blot\u201d on his record.<\/p>\n<p>Collins described herself in her statement as \u201cone of the leading advocates for reasserting Congress\u2019s war powers authorities\u201d no matter which party controls the White House.<\/p>\n<p>At Platner\u2019s rally in Bar Harbor, some voters<b> <\/b>cited his service as a reason they continued to trust the candidate during one of the worst weeks of his campaign so far. Platner had already explained to voters last fall that some controversial posts he made on Reddit were due to PTSD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been very open about his life and his mental state when he returned,\u201d said Kathleen Grover, a 73-year-old retiree. \u201cIf I had been in Iraq all that time, I would have come back a complete nut job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although a majority of Americans supported military action in the months before the Iraq<b> <\/b>War, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2023\/03\/14\/a-look-back-at-how-fear-and-false-beliefs-bolstered-u-s-public-support-for-war-in-iraq\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2023\/03\/14\/a-look-back-at-how-fear-and-false-beliefs-bolstered-u-s-public-support-for-war-in-iraq\/\">support quickly plummeted<\/a>.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3036\">Kimi Antonelli aims for 5th win in a row at Monaco Grand Prix to extend his F1 lead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were just tired. And they wondered why we had made these decisions and why we have sacrificed so much<i>,\u201d<\/i> said Michael O\u2019Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert on the use of military force.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) lost his primary campaign to Ned Lamont, who ran expressly on the incumbent\u2019s support for the Iraq War. Lieberman held on to his seat by running as an independent in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this war in Iran, I feel like I\u2019ve seen this movie before,\u201d said Lamont, now the governor of Connecticut. \u201cPoliticians have short memories, as Iran has shown us. What did we learn from our experience in Iraq 20 years ago?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) frequently attacked Clinton for voting to authorize the war. After defeating Clinton in the primary, Obama used a similar argument against Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), accusing him of following \u201cGeorge Bush into a misguided war in Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The politics of the war became less potent after the conflict ended in 2011 and lawmakers who had voted to support it began to retire.<\/p>\n<p>That has the Senate race in Maine looking something like a throwback, with Collins, 73, running for a sixth term against Platner, 41.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq War Army veterans Alex Vindman in Florida and Seth Bodnar in Montana are also running for Senate, but not against incumbents who voted to authorize the war. Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYPpkt4uFuJ\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYPpkt4uFuJ\/\">are opposed to the war in Iran<\/a>, in part, because of their service in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Majority Forward, a Democratic super PAC, is running ads in Maine attacking Collins for initially<b> <\/b>voting against a measure that would have reined in Trump\u2019s war in Iran. In late April, as the war dragged on, she began voting for the resolution, saying Trump exceeded the 60-day deadline to act without Congress under the War Powers Act.<\/p>\n<p>In a sign that Republicans believe they need to shore up veteran support for Collins, the GOP group One Nation announced a $3 million ad campaign focused on the senator\u2019s work for veterans in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Platner, despite getting thrown out of a 2002 Bush rally in Bangor for protesting the looming conflict, joined the Marines in 2004. He later deployed to Afghanistan as a member of the National Guard and said that he \u201chad wanted to be a soldier since I was about 3 years old\u201d despite being \u201cvery critical of my government.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3043\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f944b372879cab1a4b5b6239aa9d63c.jpg\" width=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f944b372879cab1a4b5b6239aa9d63c.jpg 549w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f944b372879cab1a4b5b6239aa9d63c-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Platner, in 2005, while serving in the Marines in Iraq. (Courtesy of Graham Platner for Maine)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI did everything I could to stop the war. The war came anyway,\u201d Platner said. \u201cAnd when the war came, I still felt like it was my duty to my country to enlist. So I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Platner said his experience in combat showed him \u201cthere is a true human cost to\u201d decisions made in places like the Senate. \u201cIt is what put me on a path of being incredibly critical of the American political establishment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Platner\u2019s military service has been injected into the race because of a Fox News report about vulgar comments the veteran made on Reddit in 2019 about the actions of a Purple Heart recipient who was nearly killed in a 2012 firefight in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDumb motherf&#8212;er didn\u2019t deserve to live,\u201d Platner wrote in now-deleted posts.<\/p>\n<p>Platner, in the interview with The Post, declined to say whether he regretted the comments, but he said \u201cit was a totally different time in my life\u201d and that he was \u201cnot going to stand by language I used\u201d or \u201cways that I describe things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re an infantry small-unit leader, when you engage in combat, you are deeply, deeply critical of both yourself and other small-unit leaders, because it\u2019s life and death,\u201d Platner said.<\/p>\n<p>That line of defense has frustrated some veterans, including Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am always in support of veterans running for office, but not at the expense of the integrity of the broader community,\u201d said Rieckhoff, a political independent. \u201cThere are plenty of us who have advocated for greater mental health support. \u2026 I don\u2019t know anybody who has used it as an excuse for their bad behavior.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3033\">Freddy Fermin\u2019s first homer of season helps Padres halt 6-game slide with 3-2 win over Mets<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Graham Platner is attacking Republican Sen. 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