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Article: Political Infighting among 'Dream Team' Causes Confusion, Upsets U.S. Allies.
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- October 18, 2003
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Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 18--WASHINGTON--In the days before he assumed the presidency in 2001, George W. Bush liked to boast about the foreign policy "Dream Team" he had assembled.
Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were all "smart people" who would compensate for the former Texas governor's lack of international experience.
"General Powell's a strong figure, and Dick Cheney's no shrinking violet, nor Condi Rice," Bush said in December 2000. "I view the four as being able to complement ...