Yeti,
Nuclear is not the only weapon that can be used for mass destruction, chemical and biological weapons can kill millions of people.
By the way:
Yellowcake is used in the preparation of fuel for nuclear reactors, where it is processed into purified UO2 for use in fuel rods for PHWR and other systems using unenriched uranium. It may also be enriched, by being converted to uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), by isotope separation through gaseous diffusion or in a gas centrifuge to produce enriched uranium suitable for use in weapons and reactors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake

Iraq uranium program
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/nuke/program.htm


Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD
Page 7 of the PDF file overview.
Page 11 of the PDF file: Recovery and Transition 1997-2002
The IAEA had concluded that it had technically coherent picture of the pre-1999 nuclear weapons program, although it was troubled by the absence of centrifuge program documentation and their were gaps in knowledge about nuclear weapon design and activities and the role of foreign assistance
Page 12 of the PDF file:
The IAEC rail-gun project led by the head of the pre-1991 weapons design and development effort Khalid Ibrahim Sa’id, would significant further development, be useful for future weapons design and development
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/duelfer.html -

National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report
The full 34-page NGIC Report was initially published on April 4, 2006 partially declassified concerning chemicals and warheads found by the American Military after Iraqi Freedom.
http://politicscentral.com/2006/09/01/i ... assifi.php

The only reason Saddam didn't was because he didn't get the chance. Saddam was lied to by his own scientist how far along the weapons program really was. That's what happens when you are a tyrant who kills people when they don't tell you want to here.  To keep their heads on their shoulders they told Saddam what he wanted to hear and he then bragged to the world how he had the big bad nuclear warhead.  You can not ignore the integrated intellegence reports from around the world that all say this nut has a bomb and he is going to use it and just wait. Once it's goes off its to late to say well
we should have,
could have,
didn't

the Yeti wrote:

watcher wrote:Yeti, you are sourcing the same AP article.
The point is that this fact was not reported for how many years? Everytime the media cried there was never any evidence of Saddam ever tring to get WMD they just never seemed to remember about this. What do you think Saddam would have done with the yellow-cake. Snort it.

He

would have

could have

might have

KILLED US ALL

IF he had a NUKE.

but he

DID NOT.

so he couldn't

and didnt.

Why is Bush not crowing from the highest mountain that this is HIS SMOKING GUN. he is VINDICATED!!! we all know why, dont we?? just as i stated before.

And thanks to the 4th ID and the Iraqi hangman he'll never have the chance.

the Yeti wrote:
If you check into this, you’ll quickly find that the uranium
a) was not weapons grade and

It's yellowcake.  No one has claimed that it was weapons grade Uranium.

the Yeti wrote:b) was well known to the UN and IAEA and was being stored legally by Saddam’s government. It was legally in Iraq according to international law.

Source, PLEASE.  What does this mean that it was legally in Iraq?  As part of the ceasefire agreement that ended the first Gulf War, Iraq was to document and destroy (or hand over) all of its WMD and associated materials.  

Furthermore, if it was in Iraq "legally", as you say, and was merely for peaceful purposes; then why was it "safeguarded" by U.N. Inspectors?

What "International Law" are you referring to?

the Yeti wrote: This yellow cake referenced in this story was known to International Arms Inspectors,

True, true.

the Yeti wrote:  and had been under control sense 1992, after the Gulf war.

But, if you remember, Saddam Hussein ceased compliance with the IAEA, sent all the inspectors packing, and refused to allow inspections to resume.  WHO, exactly, had "control" of the yellowcake?

the Yeti wrote:I beleive Hans Blix and his merry band of men and women had inspected and knew about this stuff.

I'm not interested in what you believe.  I care only about what you can document.



Also, when asked for a source, please do not link to the same article which I posted, in full, above.  As if you were providing an actual source for your baseless claims.