The attacks on Murtha must not be testing well.

Despite multiple assurances from this Whitehouse that they "don't do focus groups" or look at polling, I'm guessing that the hatchet job on Murtha must not have tested well.

After fiercely defending his Iraq policy across Asia, President Bush abruptly toned down his attack on war critics Sunday and said there was nothing unpatriotic about opposing his strategy.

"People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush said, three days after agreeing with Vice President Dick Cheney that the critics were "reprehensible."

A couple of blogs had made the point, that by attacking Murtha, the administration was attacking the majority of the country(54%) who now believe the Iraq War was a mistake. I doubted it would be perceived that way, but apparently the attack plan was based on "the last war."