[piasa]

Iraq had just received tons and tons of tubing prior to the war and it was thought then, due to the exceptionally high tolerances of the tubing order that the intent was to use it in centrifuges instead of the more difficult to acquire maraging steel tubing.

[Pelham]

If Saddam had just received the tubing then he didn’t have a uranium processing facility up and running and producing enriched uranium. Ergo any yellowcake that he had was still yellowcake.

And have you ever seen a picture of this tubing or a stockpile of yellowcake? I’ve never seen such a picture. Evidently cameras must be hard to find in Iraq.