History Cannot Save Bush By Amy Goodman

Goodman: Tell us what you wrote in this last column, which is called "History Cannot Save Him."

Thomas: Well, I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

Goodman: Do you expect to see a change of policy?

Thomas: I think it's an unconscionable legacy.

Goodman: Do you expect to see a change of policy, for example, on Israel and the Occupied Territories?

Thomas: No, I don't.

Goodman: Why not?

Thomas: Because I think that Obama, during the campaign, made many promises, as every president, potential president does to Israel, that they seem somehow bounded by their promises, promises to uphold all Israeli goals.

I don't see how the U.S. can provide F-16s, gunships -- Apache gunships, phosphorus -- possibly phosphorus -- and cluster bombs and so forth to kill helpless people, children who are starving to death. They control the checkpoints. They control the arrivals and departures, supplies and people. And the Americans -- President Bush has remained silent to that suffering. He has blocked by a veto at the U.N. any stoppage of the warfare, and he continues to supply Israel....