Iraq: The Savior of Iraq’s Garden of Eden Says He Knows How to Stop the Next Big War

Mar 21, 2018 | Alexander C. Kaufman, Huffington Post
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Azzam Alwash, the man credited with restoring the Iraqi marshlands believed to be the biblical garden of Eden, is ready to say something controversial: He welcomed the war. Even now ― 15 years after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, ending nearly a quarter-century of Saddam Hussein’s rule and starting a war that has killed at least 1 million Iraqis and continues to destabilize an entire region ― he sees the good that came of it.