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FROM: The Associated Press, Sat., July. 5, 2008
While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called "dirty bomb" — a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material — it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.
Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said.

FROM: http://www.slate.com/id/2085848/
Yellowcake is a first step toward enriched uranium, but it's a long way from being weapons-grade.

FROM: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/yellow
cake.html
Yellowcake is the product of the uranium extraction (milling) process; early production methods resulted in a bright yellow compound, hence the name yellowcake. This fine powder is packaged in drums and sent to a conversion plant that produces uranium hexafluoride (UF6) as the next step in the manufacture of nuclear fuel.

Yellowcake is produced by all countries in which uranium is mined.

Just one piece of the puzzle. The Spanish Navy intercepted, in the opening days of Gulf War round II, 10 intact and complete SCUD MISSILES on a cargo ship bound for YEMEN. This is a country that while not overtly hostile to the WEST, tends to side with the other team. SCUDS, as best I recall, were considered WMD's. Ever wonder exactly what became of those missiles ? Ever wonder about the type warhead they possessed ? I do, but then I'm not the typical Liberal Jim Jones Cool-Aid swiging deep denial type that haunts FOX's Blogs. Good post Abunai !

I think the fact is that no believes that Iraq wasn't researching weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The problem lies in that Bush's administration posed it as an imminent threat when in fact even this find of yellowcake uranium doesn't substantiate that. I for one believe that the president acted on poor intelligence and the chance for some of his crony's to make millions... scratch that BILLIONS! (Haliburton anyone?) Anyone who doesn't think that money is partly why we stay in Iraq has let all modicum of independent thought leave their brain, or in the worst case scenario, truly naive in the ways of politics.

No side either Democrats or Republicans acts on such a scale with out weighing the options. In this case it was the option for more money.

Iraq never, nor would they ever have, posed a direct threat to us or our allies. If they had ever even started a program such as a serious WMD research, then Israel would have stepped in before we would have even known about what was going on. No country in the middle east does anything with out Mossad knowing it, that's a fact the intelligence community world wide is aware of. So if Iraq was such a threat why didn't Israel act? Because they weren't a direct threat to anyone, not even their neighbors.

Second point, If Iran thought they were even at the beginning stages of developing sophisticated WMD's, they would have stepped in and stopped it. With Iraq's army in tatters and devoid of sound leadership, they would haven't been able to defend against either Israel or Iran from acting.

Finally Iraq was aware of the fa

Abunai nice try, but this existing sources that were sent to Canada were never part of the documentation for the invasion. These sources were sealed by the international atomic idiots and stayed sealed till abandoned by Iraqi troops and opened by marines.. then Iranians and terrorist got a hold of it. On the documents for invasion it was saying he had new sources.. these "new" sources as per the documents have never been found yet. Let the truth be the truth..

Gulf War syndrome was only a fraction of depleated uranium tipped munitions. (now tungstun is used) but there are lots of other factors involved.

But again... we seem to have missed in the "inventory" the artillary shell not marked as a chemical round and filled with over 2 gallons of sarin used as an IED that exposed our own troops when it went off... So because it was not inventory, it didn't exist?

Again! buried Iraqi Fighters.. dozens of Migs, no "inventory"

Blister agent leaking rockets, SKUD missiles reaching Kuwait hotels, in-flight chem mixing warheads, mobile "weather stations?" Centrifuge parts buried in scientist back yard, Dead AP reporters in Syria about to report on weapons cashes found in Syria, missing chem counter agents, etc.
The list is getting so long that I can't even recite it from memory anymore, and yet EVERYTIME we find something, the left has some reason to dismiss it.

There is a big difference in "Sadaam didn't have" vs. uncontrolled WMD spread all over the place for ANYONE to get their hands on! Funny still is we accept that EVERY intel org on the planet was WRONG, yet let just one person find fault with Bush, and its just got to be TRUE!!

How conveinent that is....
Once again.. go Google ANY of the above examples.

silverfox06 Go to Google, and under images type keywords "buried Iraqi Fighters" and you will see DOZENS of pictures of the Migs preserved, wrapped in plastic, and then radar scattering material, and buried out of sight of satallite view! These picture have been sitting on the open web for ANYONE to see THE ENTIRE TIME THE WMD DEBATE HAS BEEN AROUND!!

Skud missiles fired from Iraq slammed into the enterance of a Kuwaiti Hotel in the first days of the insertion into Iraq. That missile FAR EXCEEDED allowed ranges!! yet the media won't put two and two together!

Chemical munitions in bunkers found, and outside buried in the sand were drums after drums of chemicals! Nope.. nothing to report here.

Unmarked artillary shells turn out to be mismarked chem rounds with over 2 gallons of Sarin! (I guess inspectors just look at the rounds instead of actually sampling them...)

There are more stories out there and in the open...