You obviously don't know the first thing about Edward Said or the complexities of his work, which are more than just Orientalism. You don't mention, for example, Culture and Imperialism, which acknowledges certain shortcomings in Orientalism. Finally, Said is not speaking of HISTORICAL truths, but representational ones—how the West REPRESENTS the Orient.

I'm surprised that so many fall for Lewis's (and others) thundering, conservative claptrap. Bush and his crew have obviously been reading people like Warraq, whose ideological grind utterly distorts Said's contributions. Read some more in the field before you start shilling for conservative demagogues.