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Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Kevin Barrett, the Editor of Veteran’s Today from Madison, about Syria where each side is blaming the other for chemical weapons attacks in Hama.

Press TV: Again we’re hearing talks about a chemical attack. We saw last year how awful that situation was. At the end of the day though the international community did nothing. So, once again we’re here talking about chemical attacks carried out in Syria.

Do you think it is a sign of, some would say desperation of the insurgents inflicting these chemical attacks inside of the country? Or, how do you evaluate this – If it is allegedly the insurgents or the terrorists who are doing this, why now, what are they trying to accomplish?

Barrett: The backdrop to all chemical attacks in Syria is that over a year ago President Obama drew a red line. He said that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would be a red line and would trigger a large scale intervention in the conflict in Syria.

This gave the insurgents tremendous motivation to conduct false flag gas attacks in order to try to blame the Assad government and bring in the full might of the US military on the side of the insurgents. And that’s what’s been happening.

We knew back in August that the attack in al-Ghuta was almost certainly a false flag attack by the insurgents and that’s been confirmed repeatedly, most recently in the second of a series of articles by Seymour Hirsch – America’s best known mainstream investigative reporter.

So, at this point it’s clear, the world knows that the August attacks were false flag attacks by the rebels designed to cross Obama’s red line, blame the Syrian government falsely for these attacks and bring in the US to bomb Syria. I think the same thing is almost certainly behind these most recent attacks.

Interestingly enough, my colleague at Veteran’s Today, Senior Editor Gordon Duff predicted this a few days ago. He published an op-ed at Press TV and came on my radio show last night and said that there is what he calls an eleventh-hour conspiracy to stage chemical weapons attacks inside Syria and perhaps later on in Lebanon and Israel - more false flag attacks are designed to inflame war in the region. I wasn’t sure whether Gordon was right, but given today’s news I think maybe he is.

Press TV: So now what exactly does it mean, because ... although you’re saying that everyone has realized, of course the UN never really said one way or the other who was responsible because their investigation was to basically see if chemical attacks had taken place.

Now with this situation do you think that it’s possible that the United State would be interested or possibly thinking about directly entering the situation in Syria?

Barrett: I think there are forces in the United States that want the US to enter the situation in Syria and there are other forces that don’t want that to happen. And so what we’re seeing is a typical way that the war party i.e. the forces that want wider war use these kinds of incidences as a pretext to make it politically possible to escalate the wars that they want.

That’s what they did on 9/11; that’s what they’ve done before every major war since the Mexican war in the US.

This story I was referring to by Veteran’s Today’s Gordon Duff, also published in Press TV, says that the chemical weapons are being manufactured in the Republic of Georgia in Tbilisi.

Gordon says that Veteran’s Today's correspondents are in Georgia and have had first-hand knowledge of this manufacture and shipping of chemical weapons through Turkey into Syria.

So I do hope and pray that this is not the first stage of a series of false flag poison gas attacks that Gordon is predicting.

I think we need to put this news out to the world and tell people to take a look at this story at Veteran’s Today and at Press TV about the manufacture of sarin gas at Tbilisi and the fact that a rogue group of Americans is apparently behind this – people connected with the Bush administration.

So I’m afraid that the war party in the US is up to its usual tricks.