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Ted Koppel


When polls showed a vast majority of Americans believing that news reporting from Iraq was too negative, Koppel blamed the White House - demanding that Bush "level with the American people about what is going wrong, and then they and we will have a much easier time believing the good news when it occurs.

"When the administration starts dealing forthrightly with those issues," he said, "the good news will speak for itself."

A recent "Nightline" profile of a U.S. soldier taken hostage in Iraq concluded: "Tonight, his family must be wishing the president had left the job of liberating Iraq to someone else."

War on Terror is too costly. "If the motivation to go to war is . . . justifiable," the aging anchor has said, "then the cost, whether it is 500 or 5,000 or 50,000 [lives] is something people will accept. Should the motivation not be good, then five is too many."

Koppel scolded President Bush for allowing a few fleeting images from Ground Zero to be used in one of his campaign ads - then ran a clip from the commercial in which the president is seen saying, "I'm George W. Bush, and I approved this message."