"My point is that the government official is doing nothing but making wild guesses that can't (and haven't) be backed up considering that the yellowcake had been inventoried by 2002."
Isn't it funny that your argument can not be backed up by anything but assumptions. When the United States finally went into Iraq, Saddam had been defying the UN resolutions for YEARS! The IAEA & Unmovic had repeatedly said that Saddam was not in compliance on inspections and had kicked them out of the country over and over again. They also had said that none of their inspections had been COMPLETED in 2002..that's why all the lefties used that as an excuse to leave the murdering tyrant in charge of Iraq. You can not have it both ways.
The whole police action was based on assumptions. Look at Bush's SOTU Address with the laundry list. He assumed since the WMDs couldn't be accounted for (although in '95 one of their generals admitted as much that all programs were dead) they automatically they must exist in weapons form. Hell, let's start a rumor the WMDs were magicked to Syria to give the hawks a reason to attack that nation. Oh wait a minute, World Nut Daily went on about that one for awhile already haven't they? Didn't gather much steam has it?
the IAEA & Unmovic had repeatedly said that Saddam was not in compliance on inspections and had kicked them out of the country over and over again
And yet somehow they were able to inventory 500 tons of yellowcake without much problem weren't they?