Bouvard on Iraq War Strategic Necessity Post-9/11

With the realization of some eminently sane "dissident right" figures that the anti-war hysteria is an over-reaction to the Iraq War, might there also be a reassessment of that war? If so, one might begin with the question: given that the first Iraq War was not really concluded,

and that the US had hundreds of thousands of troops in Saudi Arabia enforcing the terms of the ceasefire, what, exactly, should have been done post 9/11, keeping in mind that one of Bin Laden's demands was the withdrawal of US troops from the "holy land" of Saudi Arabia? Were

they to be removed and thereby give Bin Laden a huge W? Just keep sitting there, passively, waiting for likely terror attacks? Or cut the Gordian knot, remove the reason for their presence, and in the process surround Iran from neighboring countries? That the Bush administration

could never reconcile the conflicting proposals from various government agencies or gather the will to use the opportunity to squeeze the Islamic Republic (which entered the war through proxy militias) raises a whole series of legitimate questions, of course.