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“The biggest health issue here [at the Guantanamo Bay prison] is mental. Isolation and uncertainty have led to numerous attempted suicides. And at any time of the day or night, the detainees may be interrogated, a subject of enormous controversy in itself. There is no thought here of rehabilitation. Some of these men may be here for years, and as of now, they have no appeal. Hard place to photograph. Harder place for many people to understand.”

Peter Jennings wrapping up a story about his visit to Guantanamo Bay, on the April 22, 2004 - World News Tonight
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“He [Treasury Secretary-designate John Snow] is said to be in favor of further tax cuts but against deficits. Doesn’t one lead to the other?” – ABC’s Peter Jennings to George Stephanopoulos

World News Tonight - December 9, 2002

“A central element of the President’s plan is abolishing the taxes that people pay on their stock dividends....How many taxpayers would benefit? We do know that 34 million tax returns claimed income from a stock dividend in 2000. Who would benefit most? Well, as five percent of the population owns most of the stocks, 65 percent of the benefits would go to five percent of the population. These people make more than $140,000 a year. Would there be any immediate benefit for taxpayers? No. Taxpayers would not see any savings until after they file their 2003 tax returns, which would be in the spring of 2004. And how much is this going to cost the government? $25 billion in 2003, $280 billion over the next decade – money which could be spent in other ways.”

World News Tonight - January 7, 2003

“This week we were surprised to see several hundred artists and writers walking through the streets of Baghdad to say thank you to Saddam Hussein. He had just increased their monthly financial support. Cynical, you could argue with this particular time, but the state has always supported the arts, and some of the most creative people in the Arab world have always been Iraqis. And whatever they think about Saddam Hussein in the privacy of their homes, on this occasion they were praising his defense of the homeland in the face of American threats.”

World News Tonight - January 21, 2003 from Baghdad, Iraq

“In Iraq today, while the Iraqis continue to comply with the UN weapons inspectors, the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, was attacking the United States in a public letter to Iraqis.”

World News Tonight - March 4, 2003

“For months the administration has predicted – or seemed to predict, to be fair – that cheering Iraqis would be greeting Americans in the streets and it doesn’t appear to have happened so far. Maybe we just haven’t seen it. What do you think has happened?” to former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle

ABC News Special - March 24, 2003

“Using Iraqi government figures, which we cannot verify – they may be high or they may be low, we do not know – almost 700 civilians have been killed in the country since the U.S. invaded.”

World News Tonight - April 2, 2003