Publishers Lunch quotes the new Huffington Post on one of the possible reasons we haven't invaded Saudi Arabia to bring them democracy:
The new celeblog the Huffington Post launches today with an uncredited lead story highlighting Gerald Posner's forthcoming SECRETS OF THE KINGDOM: The Inside Story of the Saudi-US Connection, scheduled for publication next week. They say the book cites NSA reports that Saudi Arabia has "a nationwide, self-destruction explosive system composed of conventional explosives and dirty bombs" installed throughout their oil industry infrastructure, dubbed "petroleum scorched earth." The idea is to protect the House of Saud from attack, from outside the country but also from within, ensuring that any such incursion would "leave the country a contaminated nuclear wasteland ensuring that the Kingdom's oil would be unusable to anyone."
The "exclusive" access to the book doesn't produce any other revelations in this story. (The catalog copy bills the book most prominently as documenting "indisputable evidence of complicity and deceit at the highest levels--evidence that the 9/11 Commission, either deliberately or negligently, failed to consider.")
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/05/embargoed-book-claims-sau_1.html
Apparently, if Saddam had actually had Weapons of Mass Destruction -- and deployed them as imaginatively! -- we might never have gotten into this Mes'o potamia.