"There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud"

This quote by Edward Kennedy is describing the 2003 intrusion of Iraq. Kennedy is indicating that the Bush administration fabricated the idea of an impending hazard from Iraq in order to validate the intrusion. He is suggesting that the Republican leadership was informed of the strategy to go to war in January, which the choice was politically motivated. Kennedy is indicating that the entire validation for the war was a scams, which the Bush administration was not being truthful with the American individuals. This quote is a strong condemnation of the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq, and suggests that the reason for the war was based upon false information.