Reprehensible.
What do you do when your close friend and advisor spends years telling you the path you're on is wrong, dangerous, and wasteful? Discredit his personal life on national television, I guess.

I have no lost love for Matt Dowd, one of Bush's right-hand men for these last 6 years, but I certainly feel he's not getting a fair shake. When the man has the courage to come forth and challenge his boss on the front page of one of the world's most read newspapers because he feels that's the only way to force the administration to acknowledge that it is against the will of the people, that's a bad, bad sign. But when the administration doesn't have the courage to address the points, but rather exploit the recent death of one of the man's premature daughters and son's impending employment to the very war he advises against, well, that shows the lowest sort of character.

Just remember - Eleven Zero Four Zero Eight. I await anxiously.