Some political insights

Had some political insights today, maybe they make sense or I am just a conspiracy theorist. With much further ado, here they are:

1. The raid on Ahmed Chalabi's house might just have been staged. Let's say you have a chosen candidate for presidency. But the people who are supposed to elect him think he is too close to the US or does not belong to them. So you publicly cut off his funding. Then you raid his house. He then denounces the "occupying army" and says that Iraq should be left to Iraqis (like him). Sounds possible?

2. This one is about Saudi Arabia. You are the House of Saud. You have the largest oil reserves in the world. You have a family which wants to be in power over there, preferably perpetually. What is the best way to do it? Make sure you propagate the most extreme form of Islam among your population. That way, the US and other western nations can never risk having a democratic government in that country.