SRL for [sliding]: For anyone dealing seriously with these issues , there could have been little doubt that Saddam would use the considerable aid and trade Rumsfeld was [sliding] his way under the table to mount a better - armed , more bloody war on Iran , to further the regime 's most ambitious dreams of weapons development , and to tyrannize all the more savagely potentially rebellious Iraqi Shiites and Kurds .
ARG-1: the considerable aid and trade | ARG-0: Rumsfeld | ARG-M-DIR: his way | ARG-M-MNR: under the table