Rats that leave the sinking ship first are usually the best swimmers

sure enough, there's more... add dina habib powell to zoellick, tobias, zelikow, krasner, bolton, joseph, and lowenkron...

damn...! they can't get away from condi fast enough... you better not be standing near the door, you'll get trampled in the rush...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lost yet another senior aide on Wednesday when Dina Habib Powell, the highest-ranking Arab-American in the US government, announced her resignation to join a Wall Street investment bank.

The departure of Powell, key architect of a Rice initiative to improve the United States' image abroad, was the third senior diplomat to quit in the past five days and the sixth so far this year -- an exodus that is expected to continue in the final 20 months of the Bush administration.

as i posted on monday, here's what they would LIKE you to think...

"It's only natural as you get towards the end of the second term that people are going to be moving on," [a senior State Department official] said. "The secretary understands."

it's a proven fact... the rats that leave the sinking ship first are usually the best swimmers...

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