Word: undercutting
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Meanwhile, Saddam is working hard to undercut international support for a U.S. attack on him by deploying his diplomatic weapons. He has found a rich issue to exploit in the Palestinian crisis and has made it a constant theme. His offer of $25,000 to the family of every suicide bomber and every Palestinian family made homeless by the Israeli assault last month on a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin has won wide admiration at home and in the larger Arab world. He is showing muscle in the oil market with his 30-day moratorium...
...long he can hold his team together. At about the same time that Bush's closest aide, counselor Karen Hughes, announced she would be packing up and heading back to Texas, longtime confidants of Powell began to whisper that the retired four-star general is tired of being undercut by Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the hard-liners who work for them...
...could be undermined. But the referendum could backfire, says political scientist Hasan Askari Rizvi: "Suddenly people are thinking, how different is he really?" Some fear Musharraf may also try to consolidate his power further by formalizing the role of the National Security Council, a military-dominated body that would undercut Parliament and hold decision-making authority over all major national issues...
...long he can hold his team together. At about the same time that Bush's closest aide, counselor Karen Hughes, announced she would be packing up and heading back to Texas, longtime confidants of Powell began to whisper that the retired four-star general is tired of being undercut by Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the hard-liners who work for them...
...says a Powell associate. "He's getting increasingly frustrated. Every single step in the road gets fought over." Last week, with Powell shuttling through five countries and the violence in the West Bank becoming worse, the White House kept quiet, leaving the diplomatic moves to Powell. "You can't undercut him," said a senior official. "You've got to let him do the talking while he's over there." But some Powell allies sensed a White House attempt to protect the President and saddle Powell with the blame, should his mission fail to produce results...