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Not sure what your point is. I guess you missed this:

"On the 12th of May, our Threat Reduction Agency personnel arrived in Iraq and began planning for its operation at Tuwaitha Charlie. And between the 15th and 20th of May, our task force disablement and elimination team conducted its technical assessment and an inventory of what was there. And from what we know at this time, the quantity of materials we have found at the site exceeds the quantity of materials that we had assessed would be present at the site."

In OTHER words, whatever information they were given by the IAEA WAS INCORRECT..THERE WAS MORE YELLOWCAKE AT THE FACILITY THAN HAD BEEN DECLARED BY IRAQ AND THE IAEA.

"...And from what we know at this time, the quantity of materials we have found at the site exceeds the quantity of materials that we had assessed would be present at the site."

In OTHER words, whatever information they were given by the IAEA WAS INCORRECT..THERE WAS MORE YELLOWCAKE AT THE FACILITY THAN HAD BEEN DECLARED BY IRAQ AND THE IAEA.

You are reading into some very vague phrasing the meaning you desire. There are many ways you can read that sentence.

Tuwaitha held many compounds in various stages of refinement as well as large quantities of undisposed waste, again, of various types and grades.

It just doesn't mean what you're saying. If it did, the Bush White House would have brought this before the Senate and the press long ago. The truth is that the evidence is lacking.

As far as the barrels that were stolen for water storage, apparently it made some people very sick in nearby villages with some deaths (I think) and Greenpeace went in and managed to get the Army to take the contaminated containers back to Tuwaitha. As I recall, Greenpeace hauled some of them to an Army checkpoint and the rest were collected by the Army. Some of these containers were much larger than barrels. No word yet on whether all those barrels have been accounted for yet. Since they bore UN stencils and there were records from before the war, we should get an accounting of them but I haven't seen any story about the final tab on the Tuwaitha water barrels.