That may actually be "ironic"

One pillar of George Bush's plan to avoid dealing with global warming is the claim that there is massive scope for expansion of nuclear power to reduce reliance on carbon fuels. Sadly, reports the Wall Street Journal (subs. req'd), step forward the market --

The Bush administration's plan for a "renaissance" in nuclear power may be crimped by tightening world-wide supplies of uranium and a lack of enrichment facilities to turn the uranium into fuel for power plants ...enrichment facilities, which turn uranium into fuel for nuclear power plants, have already pledged their services because of growing interest in nuclear fuel by other countries. The result is that the U.S. is relying more than before on Russia, which provides about half the enriched nuclear fuel used in this country.

Uranium is extracted from mines and processed into a form called "yellowcake." The yellowcake, in turn, is processed at enrichment plants, into fuel for nuclear-power plants. A far more time-consuming process is required to turn yellowcake into fuel for nuclear weapons ... The Russians say they could supply more enriched uranium to the U.S., but they are blocked by an agreement with the Commerce Department that restricts their imports to the current levels managed by USEC [single US agent].

So, the administration that spent 2002 and early 2003 arguing that access to a uranium mine in Niger was equivalent to having a nuclear weapon is now begging the Russians to enrich more uranium for them -- which the Russians can't currently do because there is a single monopoly purchaser of their enriched uranium under a deal agreed with the US. Saddam must have been even cleverer than we thought!