Back to the subject of the yellow cake - the yellow cake that was sold to Canada was the same yellow cake that the UN had already secured before the Gulf War. Since the US invasion of Iraq, the US had allowed that yellow cake to just sit around unsecured, and some of it had been looted, and the rest of it was just lying around in the open making the local people sick. The US finally decided to get it out of Iraq so that it would be secure and so that it would no longer make the local population sick.