Today’s Examiner had an outstanding editorial on the significance of the 550 metric tons of Uranium recently removed from Iraq.  States don’t stockpile Yellowcake for peaceful purposes.  Of course, the mainstream media has been silent on this story.  The Editor’s, however, were not:

Here’s the key point: As noted in 2004 by The American Thinker, Norman Dombey, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex, England, said there was no peaceful use in Iraq for the yellowcake because all three of Saddam’s nuclear facilities had been destroyed years before. Once enriched, the 550 tons of yellowcake would be sufficient to produce up to 142 nukes, Dombey calculated. The clear conclusion suggested by these facts is that Saddam was biding his time until United Nations sanctions against his nuclear program were either lifted or he felt sufficiently confident of deceiving U.N. inspectors to begin large-scale enrichment and ultimately nuke production.   

I’m sure this will do little to change the minds of conspiracy theorists who insist that the Bush administration wanted to go to war.  However, it is important for the historical record.  Once passions have cooled and an objective history is written this discovery will be an important piece of the puzzle.