{"id":93351,"date":"2026-05-18T04:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/graham-platner-we-destroyed-iraq-and-afghanistan-that-im-ashamed-of\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:43:13","slug":"graham-platner-we-destroyed-iraq-and-afghanistan-that-im-ashamed-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/graham-platner-we-destroyed-iraq-and-afghanistan-that-im-ashamed-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Platner: &#8220;We Destroyed Iraq And Afghanistan&#8221;&#8211;&#8220;That I&#8217;m Ashamed Of&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Graham Platner, the anti-establishment Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, speaks to NY Times&#8217; Lulu Garcia-Navarro on &#8220;The Interview.&#8221;   &#8220;Nothing brings people together like wanting to beat Susan Collins,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to flip the state of Maine. We have to get rid of Susan Collins for a whole myriad of reasons.&#8221;  About his service in the military, he said: &#8220;We destroyed Iraq, and we destroyed Afghanistan.  All the suffering, all the killing, all the dying, all the displacement&#8230; we brought that,&#8221; he said. That I&#8217;m ashamed of.  &#8220;The anger that I feel is for the people that sent me,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/17\/graham_platner_we_destroyed_iraq_and_afghanitan--im_ashamed.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Platner, the anti-establishment Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, speaks to NY Times&#8217; Lulu Garcia-Navarro on &#8220;The Interview.&#8221; &#8220;Nothing brings people together like wanting to beat Susan Collins,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to flip the state of Maine. We have to get rid of Susan Collins for a whole myriad of reasons.&#8221; About his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9956,29170,982,6254,683,29169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}