Obama in 2015: ‘Assad Gave Up His Chemical Weapons … Those Have Been Eliminated’

President Obama, defending himself in 2015 against criticism for not going ahead with pledged military action after Assad violated his chemical weapons “red line,” said he had not gone ahead with action "because Assad gave up his chemical weapons." " I don’t think that there are a lot of folks in the region who are disappointed that Assad is no longer in possession of one of the biggest stockpiles of chemical weapons of any country on Earth,” he added. “Those have been eliminated.”