As to whether the Iraqis or the Saudis were "at fault" for 9/11, it really doesn't matter. No doubt there were individual Iraqis and Saudis who participated in the attack, in one way or another, although I doubt either government had anything to gain by doing so. It was against both their interests to piss us off. We're capable of causing all kinds of damage when we get pissed off.

My point to Bowser is we had every right to react violently against those who proudly claimed responsibility for the atttack (Al-Quaeda) and those who openly sheltered them (the Taliban).

My point to you is the attack on Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, it was all about the Cheney/Bush strategy to use the WMD excuse to insert American power into the region to intimidate our enemies, protect our friends, and guarantee our sources of cheap energy so that our extravagant and profitable "American Way of Life" could be extended indefinitely.

It failed.