For some reason, the notoriously-right wing Associated Press is reporting that the United States has removed yellowcake from Iraq, calling it the remainder of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

As the Associated Press notes, yellowcake can be used in nuclear weapons if enriched far enough. The news agency calls this the “last major” stockphile of the nuclear material left over from Saddam’s regime.

Genghis is confused, too.

Now just wait one damn minute here! We know that this can’t be possible. Bush lied, of course, and the Niger yellowcake documents were forgeries. Saddam had no intention of building nuclear weapons. It was all a bluff to deter the American war machine and placate his unruly generals who wished to usurp his peaceful and benevolent rule.

The shipment totaled about 550 metric tons.

Update: Tekka writes:

Those of you who say yellow cake isn’t a WMD are right. You are also missing the point. Saddam did not have 550 tons of it because he was building uranium sand-castles.