So if he planned on using it later after sanctions were lifted and the monitoring forgotten, well See North Korea and Iran for examples...
(future without OIF)
(AP) Today Iraqi Nuclear Scientists broke seals at the Tuwaitha storage facility as EU and UN negociators pleaded with the Saddam Hussein regime to reconsider it's plans to restart nuclear enrichment following Israel's problematic West Bank withdrawl ... Baradei urged restraint on all parties and appealed to Iraq's claim of peaceful nuclear development for the nations energy needs...
That yellowcake was used as an example of the MSM deliberately omitting an example of 'WMD' when they talk about 'mistaken intelligence.' There was absolutely no mistaken intel about this yellowcake - everyone knew it was there, there was no attempt to hide that it was there, it was listed in Iraq's disclosures, and - most importantly - Iraq was not prohibited by sanctions, the cease-fire agreement, or anything else from having it.
So it is a 'yellow herring' to throw that issue into the middle of a discussion about mistaken intel. It has nothing to do with mistaken intel.