http://www.globalresearch.ca/remembering-edward-said/5351640

"..Even with all its terrible failings and its appalling dictator (who was partly created by US policy two decades ago), were Iraq to have been the world's largest exporter of bananas or oranges, surely there would have been no war, no hysteria over mysteriously vanished weapons of mass destruction, no transporting of an enormous army, navy and air force 7000 miles away to destroy a country scarcely known even to the educated American, all in the name of "freedom." Without a well-organized sense that these people over there were not like "us" and didn't appreciate "our" values the very core of traditional Orientalist dogma as 1 describe its creation and circulation

in this bookthere would have been no war..."  From the PDF book below

Attached is his masterpiece: Orientalism