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Hey Doug,
I'm going to see my Wacko Liberal SIL today. Could you give me a reference for the Yellowcake??? I want to rub it in her smarmy face.

Thanks in advance!
NMM

I see Schumer (like many Democrats) is saying that they trusted President Bush's decision that Iraq had WMDs, and that gets them off the hook for all of the statements made that Iraq definitely has WMDs.

The logical weapon against this tripe is to ask these Democrats very publicly if their constituents send them to Washington to make decisions or if it is normal to allow the head of the opposing party to make up their minds for them.

When they start to balk at that ask them if they think "gullibility" is a desirable trait in a national politician.

THE SONG IS HERE --- LINKS INCLUDED

Can anyone record an MP3 and do the song; can anyone do a simple flash presentation? This is how we could help get the message out.

This is what I found for 2003 and 500 tons of yellow cake from a White House Briefing. All the other articles Googled for March 2003 had to do with the phoney documents and Niger yellow cake.

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 18, 2003

Background Briefing on Iraq WMD
The James S. Brady Briefing Room

Back to the NIE. As we said, in addition to the key judgments that were provided, if you will flip to page 24, as stated at the bottom -- and again, this is an excerpt from a broader part of the body of the NIE. We felt this was important to provide as a --

Q We don't have page 24.

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Oh, I'm sorry. If you'll go -- it looks like a blank paper, but there's a little box at the bottom that says "uranium acquisition." Now, this is taken from an excerpt of the overall highly classified nuclear chapter of the 90-page NIE. There is a process, obviously, to maintain the information that is classified. All this information has been provided to the United States Congress many, many months ago when this was produced. But there are many sources and methods and intelligence capabilities that are still very sensitive, and that's why the entire NIE could not be declassified.

But right here is a little bit of a history about the question of uranium acquisition. And as you can see, Iraq retains approximately two-and-a-half tons of 2.5 percent enriched uranium oxide, which the IAEA permits. This low-enrichment material could be used as feed material to produce enough HEU for about two nuclear weapons.

You can read on about this. There's a little more of the history. "Iraq has about 550 metric tons of yellow cake and low-enriched uranium at Tuwaitha, which is inspected annually by the IAEA. Iraq has also been vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellow cake. Acquiring either would shorten the time Baghdad needs to produce nuclear weapons.

"A foreign government source reported as early as 2001, Niger planned to send several tons of 'pure uranium,' probably yellow cake to Iraq." As of early 2001, Niger and Iraq reportedly were still working on arrangements for this deal, which could be for up to 500 tons of yellow cake. We do not know the status of this arrangement. Reports indicate Iraq also has sent uranium ore from Somalia, and possibly the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We cannot confirm whether Iraq succeeded in acquiring uranium ore and/or yellow cake from these sources. Reports suggest Iraq is shifting from domestic mining and milling of uranium to foreign acquisition.

Background Briefing on Iraq WMD

It was in thre New York Times.