Cross-posted to DailyKos.

Senator Olympia Snowe has been receiving much praise for reportedly "breaking" from the Republican Party, and supporting a Democratic measure last month that would have set a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

As part of a series on how Congress is dealing with the Iraq War, The Washington Post, today, ran an article on the reactions – and attitudes – regarding the Iraq War that Snowe is facing among the Maine public. The article is interesting in and of itself. However, in what was, perhaps, an "off hand" remark, Snowe managed to raise a great deal of anger in me – as well as a great deal of concern about how this country's descent into its current situation in Iraq will be portrayed in coming decades.