Oh, I don't like where this is going. Politics is strongly discouraged. This topic will probably end up getting locked. About his bring it on comment, he reminds me a bit of Pierre Trudeau. Many concider him Canada's best Prim Minister while many concider him to be the worst. During the FLQ crisis in the 70s, he had to enact the War Measures Act to turn Quebec into a police state after a separatist terrorist group was causing chaos across the province. When asked about the act and wether he should or not, his response was "Just Watch Me."

I will bow to the experience and wisdom of my betters.   This is something that is really bugging me.  I'm usually not this indecisive about things, but I feel confused about the current state of affairs.  If this gets out of hand, please feel free to delete the whole posting and you'll get no hard feelings from me about it.

Afghansitan was to please the public

Iraq was finishing what his father started...

But it seems to me he's trying to use the cultural divide in the middle-east to put pressure on saudi-arabia, while at the same time ensuring the flow of oil if Saudi-Arabia drops out.

For what other reason does he try to get an excuse to attack both Syria (not that much oil, reasonably large shia community, anti-israel) and Iran (huge gas reservers, 99% shiite, anti-israel) when he already has iraq (large oil reserves, 70-80% shiite).
Not because they are anti-israel (as most middle-east countries are,even if the official government says otherwise), but because of that other cultural denominator: religion.

Bin Laden, being from Saudi-arabia and having connections with the Wahabite sect, is 99% sure a sunnite muslim...

And for economical reasons:
At this moment, Saudi-arabia still is allied to the US, and used as a place to station troops. As planned, these troops will be moved to Iraq. With the troops moved out, Saudi-arabia isn't that useful anymore because the oil reserves aren't that big compared to the ones in iraq (which were exclusively managed by ELF, and that on a small scale)
So when they have control over iraq, they aren't dependent on saudi-arabia anymore, not for oil and not for stationing troops. Oil can be transported over land into Turkey, which is a NATO member , bypassing both the Suez canal, so the price can be lower, and the Hormuz strait, giving less chance of terrorist attacks on tankers.