When the whole story of Wolfowitz and his girlfriend came up he said he had run it by the powers that be and no one objected.

Even if that’s true, and I have no reason to believe it isn’t, he let down the president he serves by not resigning immediately and waiting until he could get a monetary deal to leave.

Now Mr. Wolfowitz has has made his deal to leave by June 30 and who knows how much the pie had to be sweetened to get him out of there?

President Bush is loyal to a fault and Wolfowitz and others have taken advantage of that loyalty. The problem is they don’t show that loyalty to the president in return.

Look at Gonzales. If he had any loyalty to the president he would have resigned instead of making up more and more stories about the US Attorney firings, dripping pieces of information like a leaky water faucet at each hearing.

There’s no crime in firing the US Attorneys for any reason, but Gonzales wouldn’t come out and tell the whole truth at one time, but instead stonewalled, and has made this story have legs when it never should have.

He has also not served the president well by pushing for prosecutions of border patrol agents doing their jobs instead of prosecuting the law-breakers.

President Bush kept George Tenet in as CIA chief as a holdover from the Clinton Administration. Tenet, by his own admission, had more access to President Bush than he ever had with President Clinton, but as soon as he left he started turning the knife in the back of the president. The knife he had obviously already used to stab him.

He won the Presidential Medal of Freedom and gladly accepted it, while he now goes around trying to discredit everything to make it look as though the president were just itching to go to war with Iraq and used Tenet as the excuse.

Loyalty is our president’s biggest problem. He’s loyal to a fault, but those who work for him are looking for ways to disparage him and make a few dollars while they’re at it.

Good riddence to Mr. Wolfowitz, and hopefully the president will tell Mr. Gonzales good-bye too. He’s an embarrassment.